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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

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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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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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
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The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
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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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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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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.
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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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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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Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
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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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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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Get keep right people.
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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 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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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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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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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
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