James C. Collins Quotes

Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going - for where you are going will almost certainly change

James C. Collins

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• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • May
  • Home

• When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Live
  • Hollywood

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Experience
  • Society

• If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • War
  • Place
  • Give

• I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Like
  • California

• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Men

• We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all… This is the dream of every Arab.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Dream

• 'Don’t lie,' he said. 'That’s my job.'

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Job

• Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Wonder

• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Morning
  • Horse
  • Rose

• I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm coolI didn't make it surely, playin' by the rulesI've come of heart, baby, but now I'm fineI'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the lineI've come of heart, baby, but that's OK'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Heart
  • Baby

• I believe that every employee, from the CEO suite to the factory floor, contributes to a business’ success, so everybody should share in the rewards – especially those putting in long hours for little pay.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Business

• Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone.

  

  James Lankford

• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • World
  • Science
  • Interesting

• In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • World
  • Believe
  • Men

• I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

  

  Michael P. Anderson
  • Military
  • Interest
  • Wanted

• When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.

  

  Constance Wu

• Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going - for where you are going will almost certainly change

  

  James C. Collins