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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

James C. Collins

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
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
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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Blood Oxygen Water
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
The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
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Building Eternal Organisation Process Stimulate
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
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
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
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Achieve People Way
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic

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