Jim Collins Quotes

#1. In business, real discipline comes in saying no to the wrong opportunities." - Jim Collins

Mac Anderson

#2. Good to Great by my friend Jim Collins.

Dave Ramsey

#3. I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

Ben Horowitz

#4. It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?
Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

James C. Collins

#5. People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language.

Stephen Boss

#6. A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!

Jim Ferree

#7. What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?

Francis Collins

#8. He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.

Henry S.F. Cooper Jr.

#9. Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.

Suzanne Collins

#11. Kyle dumped me for some stripper whore who shops at Wet Seal.

Diablo Cody

#12. Bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.

Richard Dawkins

#13. It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Perfect is the enemy of good.

Voltaire