Quotes from Stephen Covey

Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.

Trust is the glue of life.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and happiness.

[The key to] life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.