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If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.

—Jim Collins, business consultant, author, and lecturer (from his book Good to Great: Why Some
Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, 2001) An entrepreneur must pitch a potential
investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be
made.

—Daymond John, entrepreneur and CEO of FUBU

Your long-term goals should be realistic, challenging, and attainable statements
of where you want your company to be in three to five years following the
direction outlined in your mission statement. Long-term goals function as
starting and organizational points, to make it easier to process, prioritize, allocate
resources, and coordinate related short-term goals and objectives.

—Peter J. Patsula, founder of Patsula Media and author

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan
but also believe.

—Anatole France, poet and journalist

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.

—Jim Collins, business consultant, author, and lecturer