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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.

James C. Collins

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?
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Opportunity People Thinking
We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
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Book Corporate Greatness Strategy War
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Average Finished Pages Text
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
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
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
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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Business Company Great Markets People Technology
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment – you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out.
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Letting Go Mean Pain

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