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The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

James C. Collins

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
Author
Businessperson
Journalist
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Boulder
Colorado
Insight
Simplicity
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If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.
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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.
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Indeed, the real question is not, Why greatness? but What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness? if you have to ask the question, Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough? then you're probably int he wrong line of work.
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The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
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