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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.

James C. Collins

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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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
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.
JAMES C. COLLINS

Business Humility Leadership
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
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new ‘program’ to introduce. No!
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Commitment Fashion Organization
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
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
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Average Finished Pages Text
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
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 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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Able Goals Quantifiable Statements Undisciplined

If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.

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