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Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Colin Powell

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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Deal Experience Failure Learning Life Yourself
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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Constitution Discrimination Origin Reason
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
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
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
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
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
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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Goodness Leadership Move Success
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
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

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