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> [“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 forever, even after he or she was dead and gone?3”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/wouldn-t-that-person-be-even-more-amazing-if-instead-of-telling-the/)

[Jim Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-collins/)

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## More by Jim Collins

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/visionary-companies-make-some-of-their-best-moves-by-experimentation/)

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> [“When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/when-you-marry-operating-excellence-with-innovation-you-multiply-the/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/wouldn-t-that-person-be-even-more-amazing-if-instead-of-telling-the/)

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> [“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/letting-the-wrong-people-hang-around-is-unfair-to-all-the-right/)

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> [“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it? Or just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/look-if-you-had-one-shot-or-one-opportunity-to-seize-everything-you/)

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> [ “When \[what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine\] come together,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/when-what-you-are-deeply-passionate-about-what-you-can-be-best-in-the/)

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> [“No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/no-they-first-got-the-right-people-on-the-bus-and-the-wrong-people/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/visionary-companies-are-so-clear-about-what-they-stand-for-and-what/)

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> [“greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/greatness-is-first-and-foremost-a-matter-of-conscious-choice-and/)

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> [“if you want to achieve consistent performance, you need both parts of a 20 Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/if-you-want-to-achieve-consistent-performance-you-need-both-parts-of/)

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> [“What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/what-separates-people-is-not-the-presence-or-absence-of-difficulty/)

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> [“by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/by-breakthrough-broken-into-three-broad-stages-disciplined-people/)

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> [“My God, these guys don’t even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/my-god-these-guys-don-t-even-know-what-the-return-on-investment-will/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/the-good-to-great-leaders-never-wanted-to-become-larger-than-life/)

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> [“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-collins/paradox-you-must-maintain-unwavering-faith-that-you-can-and-will/)

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