Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. 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.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

Get keep right people.