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1932 - Stephen Covey was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on the 24th of October.
1989 - His international best selling book entitled The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People was published.
1994 - He received The International Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
1997 - He was the founder of the formerly Covey Leadership Center in Salt Lake City, Utah which after a merger with FranklinQuest on the 30th of May had became the Franklin-Covey Company.
1998 - He received The Sikh's International Man of Peace Award.
1999 - He received an award as Speaker of the Year.
2003 - He received the Fatherhood Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative.
2004 - His latest book The 8th Habit was published.
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- "Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- "Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
- "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
- "While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions."
- "I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a'transformer'in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."
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