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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

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
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
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
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
I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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Difficult Encouragement Myself Policy
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
Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
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Detail Double Leadership Mindset
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
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
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
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
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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Country Journey Responsibility Togetherness Try
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
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
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
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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Art Leadership Management Possible Science

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