Quotes About Truth

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated in accordance with this principle, and the comparison companies generally did not.

This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

A key psychology for leading from good to great is the Stockdale Paradox: Retain absolute faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. UNEXPECTED

The good-to-great companies displayed two distinctive forms of disciplined thought. The first, and the topic of this chapter, is that they infused the entire process with the brutal facts of reality. (The second, which we will discuss in the next chapter, is that they developed a simple, yet deeply insightful, frame of reference for all decisions.) When

but is simplicity enough?

was so straightforward and obvious that it sounds almost ridiculous to talk about it.

the difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

The Stockdale Paradox Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties. AND at the same time Confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

the good-to-great companies continually refined the path to greatness with the brutal facts of reality.

But what I find so striking is their incredible simplicity.

If you have Level 5 leaders who get the right people on the bus, if you confront the brutal facts of reality, if you create a climate where the truth is heard, if you have a Council and work within the three circles, if you frame all decisions in the context of a crystalline Hedgehog Concept, if you act from understanding, not bravado—if you do all these things, then you are likely to be right on the big decisions.

You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

Level 5 leaders confront the brutal facts before they set vision and strategy, and they create a climate where the truth is heard. Failure to confront the brutal facts is a precursor to catastrophic decline, always.

Yes, leadership is about vision. But leadership is equally about creating a climate where the truth is heard and the brutal facts confronted. There's a huge difference between the opportunity to "have your say" and the opportunity to be heard. The good-to-great leaders understood this distinction, creating a culture wherein people had a tremendous opportunity to be heard and, ultimately, for the truth to be heard.

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts.

people worried more about the leader—what he would say, what he would think, what he would do— than they worried about external reality and what it could

I... had no need for cheering dreams," he wrote. "Facts are better than dreams.

Whenever he was unclear about some idea or emotion, uncertain in his perception of someone or vague about a memory, he sat to his journal and wrote as precisely as he could what he thought or felt or remembered, and thereby gave those thoughts and feelings and memories the solidity and authority of words recorded on a page. And by that simple act made of them his abiding truth.

A naive belief in supernatural powers has been dispelled

A man's fate is a man's fate and life is but an illusion.

Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.

If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' Ã¢â'¬Â " Ã¢â'¬ËœAnd if the Truth is hidden?' Ã¢â'¬Â Toranaga said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœIt's already clear,' Ã¢â'¬Â Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

Yesterday, because of Mrs. Struan's letter to him, he had been confronted with an immortal truth: however loyal you are to a company, however much service you give "the company," the company can and will spit you out at its whim, without conscience.

You don't know for certain about God until you're dead.