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

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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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The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
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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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To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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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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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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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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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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It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested? Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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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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Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
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Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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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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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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