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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.

Colin Powell

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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Country Division Ourselves Person Rejoice Togetherness
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
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
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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Decision Execution Faith Ideas Oneself Person Trust
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
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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Difficult Face Organization People
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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Goodness Leadership Move Success
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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Disappointment Expectation Failure Greatness Himself Problem Word
Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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Constitution Discrimination Origin Reason
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
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
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
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Decision Fact Goodness Stand Way

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