Quote

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

James C. Collins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
Author
Businessperson
Journalist
Writer
Boulder
Colorado
Definition
Definitions
Average
Possible
Everyone

More quotes by James C. Collins

Image
The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
James C. Collins
Image
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
James C. Collins
Image
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
James C. Collins
Image
I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.
James C. Collins
Image
The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
James C. Collins
Image
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
James C. Collins
Image
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 between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement it does both to an extreme.
James C. Collins
Image
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
James C. Collins
Image
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.
James C. Collins
Image
Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
James C. Collins
Image
Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
James C. Collins
Image
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 momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.
James C. Collins
Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
James C. Collins
Image
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
James C. Collins
Image
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
James C. Collins
Image
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
James C. Collins
Image
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
James C. Collins
Image
Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
James C. Collins
Image
It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.
James C. Collins
Image
The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
James C. Collins