Who is Stephen Covey

Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the time of his death.

Early life and education

Covey was born to Stephen Glenn Covey and Irene Louise Richards Covey in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 24, 1932. Louise was the...
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Stephen Covey Poems

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Stephen Covey Quotes

• A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
• Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
• There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
• 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.
• In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

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Comments about Stephen Covey

• Perihnyadihati: “i am not a product of my circumstances. i am a product of my decisions.” – stephen r. covey
• Evelioff: 83% done with the 7 habits of highly effective people, by stephen r. covey
• Belanda1978: “i am not a product of my circumstances. i am a product of my decisions.” – stephen r. covey
• Lempongfc: “i am not a product of my circumstances. i am a product of my decisions.” – stephen r. covey
• _motivatedmind: private victories precede public victories. u can't invert that process any more than u can harvest a crop before u plant it. stephen covey

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