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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

Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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Advice Counseling Fear Voice Yourself
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
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
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
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Job Leadership Motivational Organization People Planning Strategy
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
We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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Country Division Ourselves Person Rejoice Togetherness
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
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
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
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
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past
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
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training Yourself
You can’t get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.
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Afraid Best Leadership Pick Replacement Yorself

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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