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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

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 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
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
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
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Faith Perseverance Reality
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
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
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
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.
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Change Extreme Stimulating Visionary
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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Leadership Motivation Organization
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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Financial Midst Opportunity
It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
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Business Keys Passion
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity

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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