You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
COLIN POWELLDon’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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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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All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
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Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
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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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Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
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The 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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One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.
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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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Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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