When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
COLIN POWELLDon’t just count your days, make your days count.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
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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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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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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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Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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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 show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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