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" A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services. "
Stephen Covey
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" Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response. "
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" What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart. "
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" Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. "
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" Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution. "
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" Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem. "
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" Accountability breeds response-ability. "
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" Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. "
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" Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. "
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" Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply. "
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" The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. "
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" When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen. "
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" 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. "
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" The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. "
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" 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. "
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" Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. "
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" We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles. "
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" Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge. "
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" The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. "
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" 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. "
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" Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things. "
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" It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. "
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" Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. "
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" If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. "
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" Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.' "
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" 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. "
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" The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. "
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" A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. "
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" The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history. "
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