You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
COLIN POWELLYou don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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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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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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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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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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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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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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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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The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
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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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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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If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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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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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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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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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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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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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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