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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

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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
We must reject the idea… Well-intentioned, but dead wrong… That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” Most businesses… Like most of anything else in life… Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
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Business Fall Greatness
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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
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 great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company’s core values), to make the company great.
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Humility Leadership Success
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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Able Goals Quantifiable Statements Undisciplined
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
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

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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