If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
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Unknown
The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.
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Marc Allen
Blessed are the misfits who make their own rules and stick to them for they shall inherit peace of mind
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Chikamso C. Efobi
Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.
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Dragos Bratasanu
My decision isn't as important as the freedom to decide. And my income isn't as important as what I do to earn it.
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Robin Sacredfire
More Quotes By James C. Collins
Then it began to dawn on us: There was no miracle moment. Although it may have looked like a single-stroke breakthrough to those peering in from the outside, it was anything but that to people experiencing transformation from within. Rather, it was a quiet, deliberate...
Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort--to obliterate complacency--and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.
...it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.
To use an analogy, the "leadership is the answer to everything" perspective is the modern equivalent of the, 'God is the answer to everything' perspective that held back our scientific understanding of the physical world in the Dark Ages. In the 1500's, people ascribed all...
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
