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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.

Colin Powell

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
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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Ego Position Yourself
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
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
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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Depression Fall Intensity Leadership Passion Start Yourself
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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Country Journey Responsibility Togetherness Try
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
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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Afraid Best Leadership Pick Replacement Yorself
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Art Leadership Management Possible Science
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner

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