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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.

Colin Powell

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
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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Balance Criticism Drive Ego Intelligence Judgement Loyalty
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
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
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training Yourself
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
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
Treat people kindly. When you are kind to somebody and I don’t mean necessarily “buddy-buddy”, just show kindness and consideration. Show that people are worthy and you respect them and you are glad they’re with you.
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Happiness Kindness Necessary People Treat Worth 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
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
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
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.
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Afraid Best Leadership Pick Replacement Yorself
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision Yourself
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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Day Leadership Problem Soldier Yourself

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