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Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.

Colin Powell

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
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
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
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
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past
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
In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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Disappointment Expectation Failure Greatness Himself Problem Word
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Achievement Attitude Development Excellence Yourself
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need Yourself
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.
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Capability Intention Myself Presentation Regret Weapon Wrong

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