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Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Colin Powell

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Development Greatness Oneself Recognition Talent
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
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
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
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
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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Love Man Togetherness Yourself
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
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
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Follow Forever Important Learning Personal Soldier
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Failure Hard Work Inspirational Learning Preparation Result Secret Success
Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Advantage Afraid Challenge
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
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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