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Stephen Covey
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American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker (1932-2012)
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Stephen Covey (1932–2012) was an American author and public figure. He had nine children. His written works include *Little Miss*, *The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families*, *Confiar e Inspirar*, *Execution Essentials*, and *Vive in Crescendo*. Crossref lists five of his works, while Open Library records seven.
Covey’s content is categorized under self-help, personal growth, and audiobooks, with some available in German. He is associated with several quotes, including “Live out of your imagination, not your history” and “Effective leadership is putting first things first.” His official website is stephencovey.com.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-10-24
- Active to
- 2012-07-16
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,333
- Total plays
- 43,966
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Covey">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,856x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 41,108x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,397x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,551x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,135x
via Crossref · CC0
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.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stephen Covey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.