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. COLLINSEverytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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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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I am completely Socratic.
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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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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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Discipline is consistency of action.
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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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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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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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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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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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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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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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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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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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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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