A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company… — James C. Collins Balance Copy Share Image
“The good-to-great companies did not focus principally on what to do to become great; they focused equally on what not to do… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become… — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult… — James C. Collins Contribution Copy Share Image
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not… — James C. Collins Achieve Copy Share Image
Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness. — James C. Collins Great business Copy Share Image
“That said, however, we did notice one particularly provocative form of economic insight that every good-to-great company attained, the notion of a… — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or… — James C. Collins Ability Copy Share Image
Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it… — James C. Collins Bigs Copy Share Image
Look, I don't really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people… — James C. Collins Bus Copy Share Image
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great. — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average. — James C. Collins Average Copy Share Image
“Peter Drucker once observed that the drive for mergers and acquisitions comes less from sound reasoning and more from the fact that… — James C. Collins Mergers and acquisitions Copy Share Image
“If it’s not core, change it! Once you are clear about the core ideology, you should feel free to change absolutely anything… — James C. Collins Change Copy Share Image
“Level 5 leaders look out the window to apportion credit to factors outside themselves when things go well (and if they cannot… — James C. Collins Bad luck Copy Share Image
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We… — James C. Collins Exhilaration Copy Share Image
“One powerful method for getting at purpose is the five whys. Start with the descriptive statement We make X products or We… — James C. Collins Goals Copy Share Image
“THE “FLYWHEEL EFFECT” The good-to-great companies understood a simple truth: Tremendous power exists in the fact of continued improvement and the delivery… — James C. Collins Simple truth Copy Share Image
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best. — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
“Level 5 leaders: ambition first and foremost for the company and concern for its success rather than for one’s own riches and… — James C. Collins Ambition Copy Share Image
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever. — James C. Collins Change Copy Share Image
I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve… — James C. Collins Ability Copy Share Image
