James Collins

When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity. ↗

— James Collins

#love

One of the odd things about living in an apartment was that you could walk out of someone's life but still have to wait for the elevator. (p.220) ↗

— James Collins

#life

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. ↗

— James Collins

#device #induce #magazine #people #read

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there. ↗

— James Collins

#find #george #hat #like #look

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life. ↗

— James Collins

#balanced #call #ever #going #i

And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion. ↗

— James Collins

#different #fashion #fit #integrated #life

The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time. ↗

— James Collins

#build #come #i #ideas #know

The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process. ↗

— James Collins

#began #fact #first #in fact #instead

There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost. ↗

— James Collins

#blades #class #cost #every #high

So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can't is simply whining. ↗

— James Collins

#anybody #anyone #companies #concept #everyone