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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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Businessperson
Journalist
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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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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.
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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.
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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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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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I am completely Socratic.
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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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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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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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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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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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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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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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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.
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It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested? Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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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.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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