“It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.”

— James C. Collins , book Good to Great

Source: Good to Great, 2001, p. 41.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right …" by James C. Collins?

James C. Collins 22

American business consultant and writer 1958

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist

Source: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 6 : The Bus
Context: There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

“Nothing wrong with shooting… as long as the right people get shot.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

“In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

“Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.”

Robert M. Sapolsky (1957) American endocrinologist

"Sapolsky on Religion", Human Behavioral Biology 150/250 (Spring 2002) http://blip.tv/file/2204956/

“It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html in The New York Times (9 April 1967)
Context: It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either. People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.

“In other words, Bush broke what I have always called the “Amish bus driver” rule. If your religion requires you not to drive, cool beans, free country — but then you can‘t get hired to be a bus driver if your religion won‘t let you drive the bus.”

Rachel Maddow (1973) American journalist

The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (27 February 2009)

“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“If you are right among the wrong people, you may even be right, but you will still be seen as wrong.”

Valter Bitencourt Júnior (1994) Brazilian poet and writer

“It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

James C. Collins 22

Related quotes

Related topics