Investing Quote by Jim Collins

“Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and…

— Jim Collins

“When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity.”

— Jim Collins

“wouldn’t that person be even more amazing if, instead of telling the time, he or she built a clock that could tell the time…

— Jim Collins

“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the…

— Jim Collins

“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it? Or just…

— Jim Collins

“When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together,…

— Jim Collins

“No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive…

— Jim Collins

“Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they’re trying to achieve that they simply don’t have room for those…

— Jim Collins

“greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.”

— Jim Collins

“if you want to achieve consistent performance, you need both parts of a 20 Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a…

— Jim Collins

“What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.”

— Jim Collins

“by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined”

— Jim Collins