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Stephen Covey
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American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker (1932-2012)
Stephen Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and motivational speaker best known for developing influential ideas about personal effectiveness and leadership. His work matters because his frameworks and principles have shaped how millions of people approach productivity, relationships, and personal development.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Little Miss
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families ('Yu xing fu you yue', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
- Confiar e Inspirar
- Execution Essentials
- Vive in Crescendo
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-10-24
- Active to
- 2012-07-16
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,333
- Total plays
- 43,966
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,085x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 40,529x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 27,847x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,351x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,908x
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Quotes
- “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
- “We don't invent our missions, we detect them.”
- “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
- “Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”
- “Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
- “...when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.stephencovey.com
- Image
- StephenCoveyinhisHome (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 9
Show 6 more facts
- name in native language
- Stephen Richards Covey
- Commons category
- Stephen Covey
- date of birth
- 1932-10-24
- date of death
- 2012-07-16
- short name
- Stephen Covey
- social media followers
- 564645
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Article
Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) at the time of his death.
Early life and education