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No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.

James C. Collins

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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Anthem Olympic Played Podium Standing
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
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
…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
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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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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
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
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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

No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.

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No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.

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