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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

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
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
It’s what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.
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Needs People Strong
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
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
If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I’d put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn.
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Business Everything Many Organization Running
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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Balance Change Vision
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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Decision Leadership Organization
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
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 only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes

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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