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I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

James C. Collins

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
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Challenges Endure Entrepreneurs
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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Blood Oxygen Water
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
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
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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Book Corporate Greatness Strategy War
Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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Creative Impact Nice
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
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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Dream Morning Success
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
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 purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
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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Failing Prevail World
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
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
…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

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