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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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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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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.
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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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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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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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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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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.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
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Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.
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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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Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.
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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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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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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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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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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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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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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