Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
COLIN POWELLThere is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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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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If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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Get mad, then get over it.
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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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