Stephen Covey

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

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.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

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.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

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.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Trust is central to an economy that works.