“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,” — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
“It didn’t matter how bleak the situation or how stultifying their mediocrity, they all maintained unwavering faith that they would not just survive, but prevail as a great company. And yet, at the same time, they became relentlessly disciplined at… — 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 Image
“When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity.” — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.” — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined” — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
