Stephen Covey Quotes

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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

Getting all the things down game-management wise, that's what I want to excel at.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

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.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

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.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

Everybody manages differently and as far as I'm concerned the results are the only thing that counts.

I have to put my team in a good situation.