Jim Collins

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"Isaiah Berlin then popularized in his wonderful essay the hedgehog and the fox, and being a hedgehog means that you've found a big thing to focus your energy on."

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

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

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"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"

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"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"

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"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."

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"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."

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"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"

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"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."