A Quote by Stephen Covey

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Thomas Merton

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

Henry Blackaby

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

Russell M. Nelson

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Dave Ramsey

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

Natascha McElhone

I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

Michael Meacher

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Robert H. Schuller

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

Stephen Covey

"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?

Haruki Murakami

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

Donald Rumsfeld

To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.