James C. Collins Quotes

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.

So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.

There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.

You don't necessarily have to go public to get to the next level.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business.

The boom is getting boomier.

The leading factor in the building of business America has been the ready means of communication between the states of the Union, unhampered, for one hundred and fifty years, by artificial barriers to trade. This has enabled us to build up the greatest home market the world has ever known.

Immigrants everywhere have been a wonderful bonus for the host countries. Sometimes it amazes me how anti-immigration feelings arise in Europe or the United States, when immigration has been wonderful for business.

The American economy must be altered to put business back in the driver's seat. The correct role for finance is to support job creation.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.