“Nordstrom • Service to the customer above all else • Hard work and individual productivity • Never being satisfied • Excellence in… — James C. Collins Productivity Copy Share Image
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be… — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring. — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
“If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the… — James C. Collins Right people Copy Share Image
“Throughout our research, we were continually reminded of the “hardiness” research studies done by the International Committee for the Study of Victimization.… — James C. Collins Cancer patients Copy Share Image
Dreams make you click, juice you, turn you on, excite the living daylights out of you. You cannot wait to get out… — James C. Collins Bed Copy Share Image
Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness. — James C. Collins Excellence Copy Share Image
“No company can grow revenues consistently faster than its ability to get enough of the right people to implement that growth and… — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all… — James C. Collins Century Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the big point of this chapter is not about technology per se. No technology, no matter how amazing—not computers, not telecommunications,… — James C. Collins Computers Copy Share Image
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or… — James C. Collins Business management Copy Share Image
Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it. — James C. Collins Amplify Copy Share Image
“Recognize that getting a Hedgehog Concept is an inherently iterative process, not an event.” — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life. — James C. Collins Bases Copy Share Image
All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people,… — James C. Collins Action Copy Share Image
Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado. — James C. Collins Bravado Copy Share Image
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you. — James C. Collins Depends Copy Share Image
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices. — James C. Collins Choices Copy Share Image
The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will. — James C. Collins Factors Copy Share Image
In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential… — James C. Collins Blood Copy Share Image
It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as… — James C. Collins Change Copy Share Image
“Third, if you have the wrong people, it doesn’t matter whether you discover the right direction; you still won’t have a great… — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action… — James C. Collins Action Copy Share Image
You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to… — James C. Collins Able Copy Share Image
