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.
JAMES C. COLLINSAn organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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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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Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
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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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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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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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There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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