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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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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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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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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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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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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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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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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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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Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.
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Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
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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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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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Indeed, the real question is not, Why greatness? but What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness? if you have to ask the question, Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough? then you're probably int he wrong line of work.
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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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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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In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
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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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Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
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