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

James C. Collins

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
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
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
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 greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
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 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
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.
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Ascribing Guest Personal Preparations Success Yet
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive

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

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