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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
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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People Perspective Right Yourself
It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.
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Change Discussion Friendship Ourselves Role
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
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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Children Failure Imitation Ourselves
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
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
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign 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
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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Attention Experience Information Intuition Pay Yourself
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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Day Leadership Problem Soldier Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Battle Courage Fight Man Yourself

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