“My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'”

American educator, author, businessman, and speaker

Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. He is best known for The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. He died while serving as a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Covey also wrote First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him among its 25 most influential people.