Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
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It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.
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The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
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Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
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Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
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Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
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As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.
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The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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When you deal with that area, you have to take all the precautionary measures.
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Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
