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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.

James C. Collins

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
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
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
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
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
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
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
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
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
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander

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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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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