A Quote by James C. Collins
Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.
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Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.
Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.
Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.
Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
That's what the great teams do. That's where, if you're a good shooter, become a great one. If you're a good ballhandler, become a great one.
The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.
I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.
Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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