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The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

James C. Collins

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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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 settle for a good life.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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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 they are not the very point of life
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How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
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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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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
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The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
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Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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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 up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.
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