Quotes about Results
An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived.
— Stephen Covey
The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
— Stephen Covey
And to get those eggs on a regular basis, we need to take care of the goose. We need to create and care for the relationships that make those results possible.
— Stephen Covey
One of the most profound learnings of my life is this: if you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied. Many
— Stephen Covey
You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
— Stephen Covey
What we sow, we must inevitably reap.
— Stephen Covey
If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek.
— Stephen Covey
In an interdependent situation, the golden eggs are the effectiveness, the wonderful synergy, the results created by open communication and positive interaction with others. And to get those eggs on a regular basis, we need to take care of the goose. We need to create and care for the relationships that make those results realities.
— Stephen Covey
Goals that are connected to our inner life have the power of passion and principle. They're fueled by the fire within and based on "true north" principles that create quality-of-life results.
— Stephen Covey
Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This
— Stephen Covey
Stand apart from your dreams. Look at them. Wrestle with them until you're convinced they're based on principles that will bring results. Then use your creative imagination to explore new applications, new ways of doing things that have the principle-based power to translate dreaming into doing.
— Stephen Covey
Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.
— Stephen Covey