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Leadership Quotes by James C. Collins
- If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth…
- Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its…
- I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably…
- 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?
- A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
More Leadership Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. — Mary Kay Ash
- Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida