Jim Collins

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"back and built to last which was about visionary companies and enduring great companies"

"We're going to be doing a conversation on the evening around the ideas in this book"

"Jerry Poris and I set out our original question was to study the concept of corporate vision because it was sort of what would that be was back before it was something that anybody had ever studied"

"This study has done is blown that apart for me completely in the idea that the range of things that you're encoded to potentially do is incredibly vast. And all you have to do is find one of them."

"Morton Hansen and I were doing our book Great by Choice. We're looking at really chaotic environments and some of the most successful startups to great companies that came out of really turbulent worlds."