“The good-to-great companies made a habit of putting their best people on their best opportunities, not their biggest problems. The comparison companies had a penchant for doing just the opposite, failing to grasp the fact that managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.”
"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
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
- Tony Robbins
Success
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
Success
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
Success
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."
- Florence Nightingale
Success
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."
- Vince Lombardi
Success