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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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Advice Counseling Fear Voice Yourself
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
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.
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Country Racism Wrong
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
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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Earn Follow Leadership Mandatory Respect
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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Best Connection Creation Job Resources Team Training Way Yourself
You can’t get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.
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Afraid Best Leadership Pick Replacement Yorself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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Choice Friendship Himself Mirror Reflection
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Gift Greatness Love Myself Parents Value
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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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself

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