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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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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
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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Ideas Important Product Team
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
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
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
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
…the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you’re doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It’s just a given.
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Believe Business Greatness
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until

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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