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I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

James C. Collins

First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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Ideas Important Product Team
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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Financial Midst Opportunity
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
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Failing Prevail World
The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
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Challenges Endure Entrepreneurs
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”
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Giving Life Motivational
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
The only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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Able Goals Quantifiable Statements Undisciplined
Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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Creative Impact Nice
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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Leadership Motivation Organization

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

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