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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

Colin Powell

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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Arrival Compromise Constitution Country Start Writing Yourself
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
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
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
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
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
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
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
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Hard Work People Play Serious Work
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision 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
My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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Country Journey Responsibility Togetherness Try
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic Yourself
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

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