Jim Collins
American author and researcher on business leadership, born 1958
15 quotes.
Quotes by Jim Collins
- A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
- Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
- Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.
- Good is the enemy of great.
- Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
- Greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.
- Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.
- It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.
- It is better to understand who you are than where you are going—for where you are going will almost certainly change.
- Success is never final.
- The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.
- There are no shortcuts. There are no magic potions. There are no work-arounds.
- While you can buy your way to growth, you absolutely cannot buy your way to greatness.
- You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.
- Who is on the bus is more important than where the bus is going.