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Stephen Covey Quotes

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

Topics

Leadership Choice Position

I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.

Ego Never Write Everything Where

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.

Together People Key Media Born

When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between the parties. It's the Red Sox and the Mets.

Michael Crichton

Red Political Friends Personal Off

Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted?

Love Simple People Long Choose Why

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

Character Hockey Mask Wish Become

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Me Hand Well Only Chisel

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

Work Business Employees You Company

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Douglas Preston

Work Hard Work Home Job Value First

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Philip Zimbardo

Good Smart People Evil Good People

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

People See Only Extreme Gymnastics

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

Women Men Think More Shallow Whole

When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw.

School Being Sort Cartoonist Draw

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