"Those who turn good organizations into great organizations……" — James C. Collins
"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 own sake."
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87 Quotes by James C. Collins
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If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions…
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We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is…
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Good is the enemy of great.
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There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give…
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Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
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It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was…
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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at…
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
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Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to…
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If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.
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The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
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No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the…
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More Compulsion Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and…
— Julie Burchill
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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