"Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you."
- Jim Collins
Awareness
"The most powerful cultures are those that are based on values that are deeply held and widely shared."
- Jim Collins
Belief
"Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change."
- Jim Collins
Transformation
"Indeed, the real question is not, “Why greatness?” but “What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?” If you have to ask the question, “Why should we try to make it great? Isn’t success enough?” then you’re probably engaged in the wrong line of work."
- Jim Collins
Motivation
"What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life."
- Jim Collins
Adversity
"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
Teamwork
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
- African Proverb
Teamwork
"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."
- Harry S. Truman
Teamwork
"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."
- Proverb
Teamwork