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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

A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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
We must reject the idea… Well-intentioned, but dead wrong… That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” Most businesses… Like most of anything else in life… Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
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Business Fall Greatness
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
Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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Creative Impact Nice
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
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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Financial Midst Opportunity
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
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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Decision Leadership Needs
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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Leadership Motivation Organization
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
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
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Building Eternal Organisation Process Stimulate
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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Passion Retirement Sweet
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think

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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