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Business Quotes by James C. Collins
- We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a…
- Get the right people on the bus and in the right seat.
- ...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose…
- Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" if you have to ask…
- A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
- Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to…
- The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught,…
- It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the…
- Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
- "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such…
- That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.
- Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate…
- The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
- A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
- Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
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- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
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