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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.
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First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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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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A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement it does both to an extreme.
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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 am completely Socratic.
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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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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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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.
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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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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
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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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The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
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The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
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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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
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