American - Businessman | October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012
The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Stephen Covey
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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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.
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In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
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People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.
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There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
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It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
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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.
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