Hedgehog Concept Quotes

#1. It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.

James C. Collins

#2. So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can't is simply whining.

James Collins

#3. "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

James C. Collins

#4. In other words, the budget process is not about figuring out how much each activity gets, but about determining which activities best support the Hedgehog Concept and should be fully strengthened and which should be eliminated entirely.

James C. Collins

#5. Hedgehog Concept - disciplined action, following from disciplined people who exercise disciplined thought.

James C. Collins

#6. The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

James Collins

#7. Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

Andrea Arnold

#8. What is your favorite word?"
"And. It is so hopeful.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Duh, Winning!!!!


(hhahaha)

Charlie Sheen

#10. If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.

Richard Castle

#11. Like so many, this trial is not about the truth; it's about winning.

John Grisham

#12. The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

Virginia Woolf

#13. I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.

Geezer Butler

#14. Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Adam Sandler

#15. She is no longer here, but he won't let her go. So, where does that leave me? Well, that's easy. I'm left alone.

Ella Frank

#16. Alex would make a terrible Martian," said Sarah. "He doesn't have a giant laser and he's not planning an Earth-shattering kaboom." She

Seanan McGuire

#17. I recall the look in Rhauk's eyes the moment he spotted Kate. It will stay with me forever, carved into my brain like an engraving on a headstone. It's as if he found something he treasured, something he's been looking for all his life.

Marianne Curley

#18. In classic hedgehog style, Walgreens took this simple concept and implemented it with fanatical consistency.

James C. Collins

#19. And as long as it is so believed, Procurator, and as long as we of Earth are treated as pariahs, you are going to find in us the characteristics to which you object.

Isaac Asimov