1、They lived in happy insulation from brutal facts.

2、Exceptional leaders, or Level 5 leaders as Collins calls them, confront the brutal facts of reality while maintaining absolute faith that they will prevail in the end.

3、Rarely in history have brutal facts so dominated thought or has such a widespread individual virtue found so dim a collective focus.

4、There are countless business stories where a failure to confront brutal facts has resulted in lost market dominance, bankruptcy, and other reversals of fortune.

5、You must never confuse faith that you would 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.