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Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. You
— Stephen Covey
If there isn't deep integrity and fundamental character strength, the challenges of life will cause true motives to surface and human relationship failure will replace short-term success.
— Stephen Covey
"Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.
— Stephen Covey
If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek.
— Stephen Covey
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of
— Stephen Covey
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
— Stephen Covey
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind®. Another Quadrant II activity is to take the time and initiative to develop a mission statement based on principles. A good mission statement is the key that effective people use to discern which things are important—
— Stephen Covey
You can't have the fruits without the roots.
— Stephen Covey
least some of these goals should reflect Quadrant II activities. Ideally, these weekly goals would be tied to the longer-term goals you have identified in conjunction with your personal mission statement. But even if you haven't written your mission
— Stephen Covey
He realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
— Stephen Covey
Private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.
— Stephen Covey
Build inner character first—private victory before public victory.
— Stephen Covey