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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

Colin Powell

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
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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Follow Leadership Mission Primary Purpose Role Vision
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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Allow Enough Experience Failure People Situation Young Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
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
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
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Attention Experience Information Intuition Pay Yourself
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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Blood Death Expert Judgement Reality World
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
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
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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Command Evidence Prove Right Wrong
One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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Expression Need Policemen World

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