“Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was . . . just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But . . . it was an outgrowth of everything we’d been doing since [1945].”
"Most men would rather die, than think. Many do."
- James C. Collins
Awareness
"Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline."
- James C. Collins
Belief
"Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice."
- James C. Collins
Belief
"A culture of discipline involves a duality. On the one hand, it requires people who adhere to a consistent system; yet, on the other hand, it gives people freedom and responsibility within the framework of that system."
- James C. Collins
Balance
"Transformations are different from the perspective of those looking at it from the outside vs those going through it (on the inside)."
- James C. Collins
Transformation
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity