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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

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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