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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

James C. Collins

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
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
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
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
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
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
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company’s core values), to make the company great.
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Humility Leadership Success
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results.
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Ironic Lasts Organization
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
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
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes

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