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Discipline is consistency of action.

James C. Collins

The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Passion Retirement Sweet
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
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Achieve People Way
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you invest more time being interested?” Collin’s advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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Advice Heart Interesting
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
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
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
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership
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
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
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
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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 I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I’d put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn.
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Business Everything Many Organization Running
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth

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