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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Colin Powell

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
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Enemy Kill Thinking Yourself
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
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Battle Courage Fight Man Yourself
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
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Bond Essence Leadership Organization Trust 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
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need Yourself
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Dirty End Tools Yourself
One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Development Greatness Oneself Recognition Talent
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
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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Important Influence Life Live Touch Value
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past
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

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