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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.

Colin Powell

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
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Important Influence Life Live Touch Value
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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Deal Experience Failure Learning Life Yourself
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
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
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
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Accomplishment Art Leadership Management Possible
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
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
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Bond Essence Leadership Organization Trust Yourself
An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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Difficult Face Organization People
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
I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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Difficult Encouragement Myself Policy
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
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself

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