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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Colin Powell

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
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
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
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Job Leadership Motivational Organization People Planning Strategy
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic Yourself
Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Care Choice 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
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Bond Essence Leadership Organization Trust Yourself
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
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
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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Allow Enough Experience Failure People Situation Young Yourself

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