Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
JAMES C. COLLINSFirst 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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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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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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I am completely Socratic.
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No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment – you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out.
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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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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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…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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Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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