214 Quotes by James C. Collins

Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts.

If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated.

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. – HARRY S. TRUMAN1.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

The drive for progress doesn’t wait for the external world to say “It’s time to change.”

The critical question is not whether you’ll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

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.”

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated in accordance with this principle, and the comparison companies generally did not.