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

Colin Powell

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
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
Treat people kindly. When you are kind to somebody and I don’t mean necessarily “buddy-buddy”, just show kindness and consideration. Show that people are worthy and you respect them and you are glad they’re with you.
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Happiness Kindness Necessary People Treat Worth Yourself
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
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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Attention Experience Information Intuition Pay Yourself
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
Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.
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Country Racism Wrong
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself
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
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Achievement Attitude Development Excellence Yourself
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Failure Hard Work Inspirational Learning Preparation Result Secret Success

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