James C. Collins Quotes About Bus

Quotes about: Bus

• Look, I don't really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we'll figure out how to take it someplace great.

  James C. Collins

  People, Looks, Figures

• Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...

  James C. Collins

  People, Funny Business, Good To Great

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

• For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Work, People

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

• If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

  James C. Collins

  Running, Business, Organization

  "Good to Great". Fast Company Interview, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2001.

• The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, Order, People

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