Good Is The Enemy Of Great.

You Must Maintain Unwavering Faith That You Can And Will Prevail In The End, Regardless Of The Difficulties, And At The Same Time, Have The Discipline To Confront The Most Brutal Facts Of Your Current Reality, Whatever They Might Be.

Whether You Prevail Or Fail Depends More On What You Do To Yourself Than On What The World Does To You.

Smart People Instinctively Understand The Dangers Of Entrusting Our Future To Self-serving Leaders Who Use Our Institutions, Whether In The Corporate Or Social Sectors, To Advance Their Own Interests.

The Best Ceos In Our Research Display Tremendous Ambition For Their Company Combined With The Stoic Will To Do Whatever It Takes, No Matter How Brutal (within The Bounds Of The Company's Core Values), To Make The Company Great. Yet At The Same Time They Display A Remarkable Humility About Themselves, Ascribing Much Of Their Own Success To Luck, Discipline And Preparation Rather Than Personal Genius.

"growth!" Is Not A Hedgehog Concept. Rather, If You Have The Right Hedgehog Concept And Make Decisions Relentlessly Consistent With It, You Will Create Such Momentum That Your Main Problem Will Not Be How To Grow, But How Not To Grow Too Fast.