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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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The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.
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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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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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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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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
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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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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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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I am completely Socratic.
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Get keep right people.
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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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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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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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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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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.
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