I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new 'program' to introduce. No! The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.

In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.