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Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

James C. Collins

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)
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Anthem Olympic Played Podium Standing
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
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Business Numbers Responsibility
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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
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
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
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 main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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Keys Order People Point Second
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.
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Decision Leadership Needs

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