“Enduring great companies don’t exist merely to deliver returns to shareholders. Indeed, in a truly great company, profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life, but they are not… — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
“Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity.” — Jim Collins Copy Share
“wouldn’t that person be even more amazing if, instead of telling the time, he or she built a clock that could tell the time… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it? Or just… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together,… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they’re trying to achieve that they simply don’t have room for those… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.” — Jim Collins Copy Share
“if you want to achieve consistent performance, you need both parts of a 20 Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.” — Jim Collins Copy Share
“by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined” — Jim Collins Copy Share
“My God, these guys don’t even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.” — Jim Collins Copy Share
“The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were… — Jim Collins Copy Share
“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time… — Jim Collins Copy Share
