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Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Colin Powell

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
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
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
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Accomplishment Art Leadership Management Possible
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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Blood Death Expert Judgement Reality World
A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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Choice Friendship Himself Mirror Reflection
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
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need Yourself
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
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team
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
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 that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

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Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

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