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If I Were Running A Company Today, I Would Have One Priority Above All Others: To Acquire As Many Of The Best People As I Could. I'd Put Off Everything Else To Fill My Bus. Because Things Are Going To Come Back. My Flywheel Is Going To Start To Turn. And The Single Biggest Constraint On The Success Of My Organization Is The Ability To Get And To Hang On To Enough Of The Right People.

Greatness Is Not A Function Of Circumstance. Greatness, It Turns Out, Is Largely A Matter Of Conscious Choice, And Discipline.

A Visionary Company Doesn't Simply Balance Between Idealism And Profitability: It Seeks To Be Highly Idealistic And Highly Profitable. A Visionary Company Doesn't Simply Balance Between Preserving A Tightly Held Core Ideology And Stimulating Vigorous Change And Movement; It Does Both To An Extreme.

Profit Is Like Oxygen, Food, Water, And Blood For The Body; They Are Not The Point Of Life, But Without Them, There Is No Life.

Faith In The Endgame Helps You Live Through The Months Or Years Of Buildup.