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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

Colin Powell

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Achievement Attitude Development Excellence Yourself
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
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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Best Connection Creation Job Resources Team Training Way Yourself
You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Image Job Position Yourself
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
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
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
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
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team
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
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
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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Attitude Leadership Role Thinking Win

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