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

James C. Collins

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
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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 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
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results.
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Ironic Lasts Organization
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
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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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Built Company Enduring Great Results
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
Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.
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Inevitably REquired Rigor Significant
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.
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Ascribing Guest Personal Preparations Success Yet

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