I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
JAMES C. COLLINSGreat companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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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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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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The only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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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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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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I am completely Socratic.
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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)
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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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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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