Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
COLIN POWELLThe 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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I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.
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Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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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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When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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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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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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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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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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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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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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