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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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Businessperson
Journalist
Writer
Boulder
Colorado
Completely
Socratic

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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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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.
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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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You can't manufacture passion or motivate people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.
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Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
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We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become more like a business. Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
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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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It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.
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Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
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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.
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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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