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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.

Colin Powell

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Determination Dreams Hard Work Magic Reality Sweat
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training Yourself
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
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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Afraid Best Leadership Pick Replacement Yorself
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Bond Essence Leadership Organization Trust Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
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
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
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
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
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
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
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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People Perspective Right Yourself
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch 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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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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