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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Colin Powell

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
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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Born Errors Experience Leadership Learning
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
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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Deal Experience Failure Learning Life Yourself
Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Advantage Afraid Challenge
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Accomplishment Art Leadership Management Possible
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
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Follow Forever Important Learning Personal Soldier
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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Clothes Himself Organization Rebel Tolerance
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
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Ego Position Yourself
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
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Balance Criticism Drive Ego Intelligence Judgement Loyalty

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