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…however you slice it, lack of management discipline correlates with decline, and passionate adherence to management discipline correlates with recovery and ascent.
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…research shows that it is possible to build a great institution that sustains exceptional performance for multiple decades, perhaps longer, even in the efface of chase, disruption, uncertainty, and violent change.
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…above all, do not ever capitulate to the idea that an era of success must inevitably be followed by decline and demise brought on by forces outside your control.
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…circumstances alone do not determine outcomes.
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…we are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our setbacks, our history, our mistakes, or even staggering defeats along the way. We are freed by our choices.
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The signature of the truly great versus the merely successful is not the absence of difficulty, but the ability to come back from setbacks, even cataclysmic catastrophes, stronger than before.
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As long as you never get entirely knocked out of the game, there remains always hope.
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Failure is not so much a physical state as a state of mind; success is falling down, and getting up one more time, without end.
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Never give in. Be willing to change tactics, but never give up on your core purpose. Be willing to kill failed business ideas, but never give up on the idea of building a great company.
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