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

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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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If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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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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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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The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.
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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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I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.
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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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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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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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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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How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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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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The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
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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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