Stephen Covey Quotes

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

I always got my work done before playing.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.