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The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.

Colin Powell

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
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
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need Yourself
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Care Choice Yourself
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
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
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Bond Essence Leadership Organization Trust Yourself
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
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
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
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
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism

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