“Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant… — Jim Collins Business Copy Share Image
“When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity.” — Jim Collins Creativity 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… — Jim Collins Dead and gone 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… — Jim Collins Right people 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?… — Jim Collins Lose yourself 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]… — Jim Collins Business Copy Share Image
“No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where… — Jim Collins Good to great 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… — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
“greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.” — Jim Collins Discipline 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… — 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
“by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined” — Jim Collins Discipline Copy Share Image
“My God, these guys don’t even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.” — Jim Collins Investing Copy Share Image
“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.… — Jim Collins Great leader Copy Share Image
“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the… — Jim Collins Adversity Copy Share Image
“Visionary companies pursue a cluster of objectives, of which making money is only one—and not necessarily the primary one.” — Jim Collins Business Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the real question is not, “Why greatness?” but “What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?” If you… — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
“Contrary finding: The best leaders we studied did not have a visionary ability to predict the future. They observed what worked, figured… — Jim Collins Business Copy Share Image
“Enduring great companies don’t exist merely to deliver returns to shareholders. Indeed, in a truly great company, profits and cash flow become… — Jim Collins Business Copy Share Image
“We were surprised, shocked really, to discover the type of leadership required for turning a good company into a great one. Compared… — Jim Collins Business Copy Share Image
“In the end, Mockler and the board were proved right, stunningly so. If a shareflipper had accepted the 44 percent price premium… — Jim Collins Investing Copy Share Image
“The difficult task is to marry relentless discipline with creativity, neither letting discipline inhibit creativity nor letting creativity erode discipline.” — Jim Collins Creativity 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… — Jim Collins Business Copy Share Image
“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.” — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
“How many companies have you encountered that articulate a clear ideology at the start of the company, yet cannot articulate a clear… — Jim Collins Business Copy Share Image
