Change your practices without abandoning your core values. — James C. Collins Change Copy Share Image
If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities. — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people. — James C. Collins Discipline Copy Share Image
Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness. — James C. Collins Excellence Copy Share Image
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth. — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the… — James C. Collins Advantage Copy Share Image
Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless. — James C. Collins Decision 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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. — James C. Collins Failure 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
How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed. — James C. Collins Help others Copy Share Image
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“He did not understand—until it was too late—what one university president called the reality of tenured faculty: “A thousand points of no.” — James C. Collins 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 inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment - you leave nothing in reserve,… — James C. Collins Commitment Copy Share Image
First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“If you have the right people on the bus, they will be self-motivated. The real question then becomes: How do you manage… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a… — James C. Collins 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 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 Copy Share Image
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we… — James C. Collins 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
If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best… — James C. Collins Ability 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
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 Copy Share Image
For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect,… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you… — James C. Collins Anthem Copy Share Image
“David Maxwell, like Darwin Smith and Colman Mockler, exemplified a key trait of Level 5 leaders: ambition first and foremost for the… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If… — James C. Collins Adventure Copy Share Image
Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. — James C. Collins Duality Copy Share Image
True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to. — James C. Collins Freedom Copy Share Image
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive. — James C. Collins Mistake Copy Share Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency. — James C. Collins Consistency Copy Share Image
