Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
COLIN POWELLYou don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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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.
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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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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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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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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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