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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Dirty End Tools Yourself
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision Yourself
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Hard Work People Play Serious Work
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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Country Journey Responsibility Togetherness Try
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Gift Greatness Love Myself Parents Value
You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Image Job Position Yourself
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Battle Courage Fight Man Yourself
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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Action Condition Destiny Energy Fulfillment Health Organism
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic Yourself
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
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Job Leadership Motivational Organization People Planning Strategy
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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Goodness Leadership Move Success

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