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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 absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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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Needs People Strong
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
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
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
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
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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Business Company Great Markets People Technology
It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you invest more time being interested?” Collin’s advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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Advice Heart Interesting
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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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Giving Life Motivational
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

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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