Quotes from Sean Covey

las personas no tienen claro el objetivo, no están comprometidas con él, no saben qué tareas específicas les corresponden y no hay rendición de cuentas para supervisar que todos cumplan con sus responsabilidades.

to shelve this book. But before you do that, hear me out. If you promise to read this book, I'll promise to make it an adventure. In fact, to keep it fun, I've stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world … along with a few other surprises.

The key to changing yourself is to first change your perspective or paradigm

No one is better or worse than anyone else, just different. You're okay, they're okay.

please listen to me: There is someone out there who loves you. Please hold on for dear life. Things are never as dark as they seem. Talk with someone immediately and let them know how you're feeling, in the same way you'd talk to them if you had a terrible flu. "I'm feeling really sick. Can you help me?

The snapshots represent the characteristics and practices of successful companies at a specific point in time, not those of struggling ones; or of executives who perform better than others at the time of the snapshot. Explicitly or implicitly, they then assert that if you want to perform as well as the best-performing ones, you should copy what the best companies and the best executives do. My colleagues and I have eschewed the profession

So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the "in-group," we lose sight of things that are far more important…

Pay now and play later or play now and pay later.

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Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream?, or are you really as beautiful us you seem?

I always just hoped that, that I'd meet some nice friendly girl, like the look of her, hope that the look of me didn't make her physically sick, then pop the question and ... um ... settle down and be happy.

begin by asking, "If every other aspect of our team's performance remained at its current level, what is the one area where significant improvement would have the greatest impact?

W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught that any time the majority of the people behave a particular way the majority of the time, the people are not the problem.

If I am what I have and all I have is lost, then what am I?

El reto es ejecutar las metas más importantes sin dejar aquello que es urgente.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

We become what we repeatedly do.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself