Stephen Covey – Highly Effective People.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a self-help book written by Stephen R. Covey that has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. The book discusses seven habits that can help people be more effective in their personal and professional lives. These habits are:

Be proactive: Take initiative and responsibility for your actions.
Begin with the end in mind: Set clear goals and plan to achieve them.
Put first things first: Prioritize important tasks and manage your time effectively.
Think win-win: Seek mutually beneficial solutions in relationships and negotiations.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood: Listen to others with an open mind before communicating your own perspective.
Synergize: Work effectively with others to achieve greater results.
Sharpen the saw: Take care of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being to maintain your personal effectiveness.

THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE BY STEPHEN COVEY – ANIMATED REVIEW

Stephen R. Covey speaking at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Quotes by Highly Effective People

“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.” ~ Stephen Covey
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” ~ Thomas J. Watson
“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.” ~ Stephen Covey
“When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.” ~ Harvey Mackay
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” ~ Steve Jobs