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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.

James C. Collins

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?
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Opportunity People Thinking
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
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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Letting Go Mean Pain
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
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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Needs People Strong
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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Balance Change Vision
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
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
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
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
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose

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