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Company Quotes by James C. Collins
- Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
- In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but…
- If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I…
- For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly…
- Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products.…
- Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.…
- The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how…
- Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make…
- If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?
- Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5…
- A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
- 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.
- The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
- Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
- Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
- Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the…
- If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not…
- A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
- I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right…
- A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance…
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- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what… — Jane Austen
- What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no,… — Teresa of Avila
- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith. — Stephen Baldwin
- We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it… — Dave Barry
- I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I… — Drew Barrymore
- It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a… — Drew Barrymore