Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
COLIN POWELLHave a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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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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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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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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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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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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Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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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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Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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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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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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