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James Collins

"There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost."

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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."

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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."

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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."

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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."

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"For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions."

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"Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles."

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"Redundancy is my favourite business strategy."

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"In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination."

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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."

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"There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost."

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"A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising."

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"The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite."

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"If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept."

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"Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life."

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"And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion."

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"That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it."

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"The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time."

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"Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there."

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"The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process."

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