A Quote by James C. Collins
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.
The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.
Just because a company's future is highly uncertain doesn't mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss.
I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only based company - most profitable. They started a very idealistic, beautiful company in many ways, but they didn't have a business model.
One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.
Fighting with corruption is highly, is an issue, is a problem. It's highly on the agenda in our country.
Maryland is home to one of the world's most highly skilled, highly educated workforces.
I would highly, highly recommend seeing 'Paranormal Activity' with a friend or, better yet, a group.
Our servicemen and women are highly trained, highly skilled, and the most professional fighting force in the world.
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It was a nice experience to shoot on the streets of New York. Tourists are highly respected there and people are highly disciplined and polite.
I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.
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