Book Titles

Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t

By Jim Collins

Year Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 978-0066620992
Categories: Change, Success, Transformation

58 Quotes Found

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Good to Great:

…while you can buy your way to growth, you absolutely cannot buy your way to greatness.

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Good to Great:

It is only through consistency over time, through multiple generations, that you get maximum results.

182

Good to Great:

Under the right conditions, the problems of commitment, alignment, motivation, and change largely take care of themselves.

187

Good to Great:

…in a truly great company, profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life, but they are not the very point of life.

194

Good to Great:

Enduring great companies preserve their core values and purpose while their business strategies and operating practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.

195

Good to Great:

…core values are essential for enduring greatness, but it doesn’t seem to matter what those core values are.

195

Good to Great:

There is great solace in the simple fact of clarity – about what is vital, and what is not.

205

Good to Great:

…in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life.

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