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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

James C. Collins

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
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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Dream Morning Success
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
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
You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)
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Anthem Olympic Played Podium Standing
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Passion Retirement Sweet
The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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Keys Order People Point Second
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
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
In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
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Blood Business Responsibility
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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Humility Leadership Success
Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new ‘program’ to introduce. No!
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Commitment Fashion Organization
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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

You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

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