Jim Collins

"We have a punch card system as something that I was very impressed by Warren Buffett's view of the world. Any use of you is an investment. It's a punch and you can't get it back."

"I started counting my hours. I basically got to have above a thousand creative hours every 365 day cycle every single day looking back for 50 years without a miss."

"So I take I pack Pete's ground coffee, Arabian mocha java, a cone filter, the filters themselves, a water boiler so that you can make sure that you have hot water"

"I just grab something that's fairly easy to eat with with a cup of coffee, a Kind bar or maybe a yogurt or something like that"

"Joanne curates stories from, you know, the Wall Street Journal or from, you know, wherever and she reads them out loud and then we talk about them"

"That amazing album where he comes together with Alison Krauss and they do Raising Sand. Raising Sand is stunningly exceptional piece of music. And that comes he's already heading into his seventh decade of life"

"I sat down and read his book which he wrote in alternating chapters with his wife called In Love and War"

"She ends up writing this book, The Guns of August. President Kennedy reads the Guns of August before the Cuban Missile Crisis and then ends up applying the lessons"

"Tony Morrison didn't write Beloved till 56 or publish it. Jazz at 61. Over half of her books after the age of 60"

"I get up and I open the door to pick up my morning USA Today. And I pick it up and the top of the USA Today says Built to Last author something."

"On April 9th at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco we're going to be doing a conversation on the evening around the ideas in this book"

"When I went off to Stanford Business School second year and the course sorting machine I wanted to get into an entrepreneurship small business course."

"I'd written a little article for the San Jose Mercury News. A fellow by the name of Jerry Porras just happened to read it."