What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?


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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
STEPHEN COVEY
They got in the porch area and broke the window to the main house. But they did not get in because t...
CARL COVEY
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.
STEPHEN COVEY
The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo L...
JOY COVEY
Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a t...
SEAN COVEY
There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings.
STEPHEN COVEY
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel ...
STEPHEN COVEY
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
STEPHEN COVEY
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books...
STEPHEN COVEY
There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on edu...
STEPHEN COVEY
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal...
STEPHEN COVEY
We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.
SEAN COVEY
(With people) if you want to save time, dont be efficient. With people, slow is fast and fast is slo...
STEPHEN COVEY
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities...
STEPHEN COVEY
As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity th...
STEPHEN COVEY
All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And si...
SEAN COVEY
The main thing is to keep the main thing - Main thing
STEPHEN COVEY
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions
–STEPHEN COVEY
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic p...
STEPHEN COVEY
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN COVEY
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independ...
STEPHEN COVEY
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Ps...
STEPHEN COVEY
Interdependency follows independence.
STEPHEN COVEY
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will...
STEPHEN COVEY
Private victories precede public victories.
STEPHEN COVEY
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
STEPHEN COVEY
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder...
STEPHEN COVEY
Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things.
STEPHEN COVEY
Well, they're going to be back out again. I?m going to see them again. Something needs to be done in...
CARL COVEY
Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly...
SEAN COVEY
We become what we repeatedly do.
STEPHEN COVEY
The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident pr...
STEPHEN COVEY
The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
STEPHEN COVEY
We become what we repeatedly do.
SEAN COVEY
Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
SEAN COVEY
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
STEPHEN COVEY
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the press...
STEPHEN COVEY
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be ...
STEPHEN COVEY
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term th...
STEPHEN COVEY
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school...
STEPHEN COVEY