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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

Colin Powell

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
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
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Battle Courage Fight Man Yourself
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
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Hard Work People Play Serious Work
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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Allow Enough Experience Failure People Situation Young Yourself
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
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
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
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
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Bond Essence Leadership Organization Trust Yourself
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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Action Condition Destiny Energy Fulfillment Health Organism

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