A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
JAMES C. COLLINSProfit 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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Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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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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People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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I am completely Socratic.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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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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The only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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