A Quote by Stephen Covey

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Stephen Covey

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Stephen Covey

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

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

Stephen Covey

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Russell M. Nelson

I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.

Joyce Carol Oates

You might need a little more nuance in personal relationships. Climbing the work ladder is different from climbing the social ladder.

Miriam Shor

The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.

John Ortberg

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

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

Seth Godin

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

Zig Ziglar

I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.