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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.

James C. Collins

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
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Blood Business Responsibility
…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
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Faith Perseverance Reality
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
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.
JAMES C. COLLINS

Book Corporate Greatness Strategy War
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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Financial Midst Opportunity
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic

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