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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.

James C. Collins

Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
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
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
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
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
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
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
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
…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
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People

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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