Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
James C. Collins
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
Author
Businessperson
Journalist
Writer
Boulder
Colorado
Study
Company
Learn
Fall
Doesn
Invalidate
Best
Studying
Falls
Historical
More quotes by James C. Collins
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.
James C. Collins
Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
James C. Collins
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.
James C. Collins
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
James C. Collins
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.
James C. Collins
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
James C. Collins
Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
James C. Collins
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.
James C. Collins
The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment - you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out. Failure means making a decision to let go, to be less than 100% committed, when confronted by fear, pain and uncertainty.
James C. Collins
The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
James C. Collins
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
James C. Collins
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
James C. Collins
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.
James C. Collins
Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
James C. Collins
How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
James C. Collins
Get keep right people.
James C. Collins
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.
James C. Collins
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
James C. Collins
Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.
James C. Collins
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
James C. Collins
