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James C. "Jim" Collins III (born 1958) is an American business consultant, author, and lecturer on the subject of company sustainability and growth.

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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.

Grown, Keys, Reason, Reason Why, Visionaries, Visionary

Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.

Bed, Commitment, Morning, Spring

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

Factor, Great Leader, Humility, Leader

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

Balance, Company, Highly, Idealism, Profitability, Visionaries

In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.

Change, Communication, Fundamentals, Important, World

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.

Good Life, Life And Love, Look, People, Realize

Discipline is consistency of action.

Action, Consistency, Discipline

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.

Ignite, Manufacture, Passion, People

For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

Business, Love, Loved, People, Vast, Work

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

Consciousness, Priorities, Three

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

Disappeared, Enterprise, Holes, Leadership, Planet, Planets

If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.

Corporations, Enduring, Greatness, Leadership, Real, Stars

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

Opportunities, Opportunity, People, Same, Thinking

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

Make, Managing, Mind Your Own Business, Opportunities, Opportunity, Way

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Depends, Doe, Failing, Prevail, World

You need self-control in an out-of-control world.

Needs, Self, Self Control, World

If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.

Cause, Causes, Charismatic, Leader, Needs

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

Decision, Inevitably, Leadership, Organization, Point, Significant

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

Economic, Greatness, Mean, Power, Prosperous

The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

Essence, Profound, Simplicity

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