Good To Great Quotes

“There are going to be times when you can't wait for somebody. Now you're either on the bus or off the bus”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.”
― J.R. Rim

“In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off.”
― Jim Collins

“We were surprised, shocked really, to discover the type of leadership required for turning a good company into a great one. Compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities, the good-to-great leaders seem to have come from Mars. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy—these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar.”
― Jim Collins

“No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive it.”
― Jim Collins

“You cannot be great at something at which you have never been good.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,”
― Jim Collins

“Our study clearly shows that a company does not need to be in a great industry to become a great company. Each good-to-great company built a fabulous economic engine, regardless of the industry. They were able to do this because they attained profound insights into their economics.”
― Jim Collins