Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

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I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

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