Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
COLIN POWELLThe best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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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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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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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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Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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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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