The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
COLIN POWELLA mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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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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Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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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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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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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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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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