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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.

James C. Collins

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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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
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
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
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
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
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 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
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
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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Ideas Important Product Team
Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.
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Inevitably REquired Rigor Significant
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

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