Quote

How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

James C. Collins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
Author
Businessperson
Journalist
Writer
Boulder
Colorado
Succeed
Help
Helping
Others
Best

More quotes by James C. Collins

Image
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.
James C. Collins
Image
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
Image
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
James C. Collins
Image
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
James C. Collins
Image
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.
James C. Collins
Image
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.
James C. Collins
Image
I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.
James C. Collins
Image
The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.
James C. Collins
Image
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
James C. Collins
Image
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.
James C. Collins
Image
Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
James C. Collins
Image
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
James C. Collins
Image
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
James C. Collins
Image
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.
James C. Collins
Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
James C. Collins
Image
Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
James C. Collins
Image
If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
James C. Collins
Image
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.
James C. Collins
Image
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
James C. Collins
Image
The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
James C. Collins