Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
James C. CollinsNot all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?
James C. CollinsThose who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
James C. CollinsGreatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
James C. CollinsYou 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, whatever they might be.
James C. CollinsThe start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?
James C. Collins