Stephen Covey

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.”

“When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”

“When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.”

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

“In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.”

“Trust is the glue of life.”

“There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.”

“We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.”

“Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can’t control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?”

“A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.”

“The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.”

“The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.”

“How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.”

“If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.”

“Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.”

“If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”

“We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.”

“When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.”