There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
COLIN POWELLThe best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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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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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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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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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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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.
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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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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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