Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
COLIN POWELLAs a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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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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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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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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Get mad, then get over it.
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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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