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" Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations. "
Stephen Covey
Nature
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" Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. "
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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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" We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles. "
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" I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching. "
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" The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. "
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Life
" The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. "
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Learn
Correct
" 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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Need
" It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are. "
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Amazing
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" Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. "
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Change
Freedom
" Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. "
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Family
" Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. "
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Respect
People
Honesty
" An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success. "
Stephen Covey
Opportunity
Succeed
Success
" The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual. "
Stephen Covey
Spiritual
Life
Family
" The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. "
Stephen Covey
Challenge
Balance
Struggles
" When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are. "
Stephen Covey
Value
Truth
Principles
" Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying. "
Stephen Covey
India
People
Find
" Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. "
Stephen Covey
Permanent
Value
Principles
" The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. "
Stephen Covey
Key
Schedule
Priorities
" Trust is central to an economy that works. "
Stephen Covey
Economy
Central
Works
" Seek first to understand, then to be understood. "
Stephen Covey
Seek
Understood
First
" You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. "
Stephen Covey
Ever
Meaningful
Retire
" I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. "
Stephen Covey
Coach
Believe
I Believe
" There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. "
Stephen Covey
Strong
Pressure
Expectations
" There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. "
Stephen Covey
Change
Three
Principles
" To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know. "
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Something
Really
Learn
" Public behavior is merely private character writ large. "
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Writ
Public
Behavior
" 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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Strength
Heart
Character
" The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. "
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Desire
Human Spirit
Human
" Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. "
Stephen Covey
Abundance
Happy
Others
" Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. "
Stephen Covey
People
Technology
Innovation