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…if you want to be truly great, selecting the right place to focus is crucial.
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Greatness and near-sightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one’s sights and pushing toward the horizon.
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The choice isn’t between success and failure; it’s between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.
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The choice isn’t between success and failure; it’s between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.
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The costs of being less than truly world class are growing, as are the rewards of being genuinely great.
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…from examining the early lives of business greats… they didn’t seem to hold any identifiable gift or give any early indication of what they would become.
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If the activities that lead to greatness were easy and fun, then everyone would do them and they would not distinguish the best from the rest.
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There is in fact a path leading from the state of our own abilities to that of the greats. The path is extremely long and demanding, and only a few will follow it all the way to its end.
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…at most companies – as well as most educational institutions and many nonprofit organizations – the fundamentals of great performance are mainly unrecognized or ignored.
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No matter how many steps on the road to great performance you choose to take, you will be better off than if you hadn’t taken them.
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