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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Colin Powell

I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.
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Capability Intention Myself Presentation Regret Weapon Wrong
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
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 can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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Advice Counseling Fear Voice Yourself
A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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Choice Friendship Himself Mirror Reflection
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight 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
An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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Difficult Face Organization People
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training Yourself
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Failure Hard Work Inspirational Learning Preparation Result Secret Success
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism

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