At a glance
- Age
- 79
- Born
- October 24, 1932
- From
- Salt Lake City
- Nationality
- United States
Biography
The book most people know him for is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — the source of the language about being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and putting first things first that has since spread far beyond the page it was printed on. If you have encountered a quote of his on a clip or a poster, it almost certainly came from there.
He kept writing after it. First Things First and Principle-Centered Leadership extended the same territory into time management and leadership; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families applied it at home; The 8th Habit added to the original framework. The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time turned the material towards schools and the children in them.
Born in Salt Lake City in 1932, he worked as an educator, author, businessman and speaker, and Time named him one of the 25 most influential people in 1996. He was teaching at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University when he died in 2012.
He kept writing after it. First Things First and Principle-Centered Leadership extended the same territory into time management and leadership; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families applied it at home; The 8th Habit added to the original framework. The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time turned the material towards schools and the children in them.
Born in Salt Lake City in 1932, he worked as an educator, author, businessman and speaker, and Time named him one of the 25 most influential people in 1996. He was teaching at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University when he died in 2012.
Quotes 6
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose.”
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.”
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
