A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
JAMES C. COLLINSIt’s what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
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It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
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Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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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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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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Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company’s core values), to make the company great.
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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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