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Colin Powell

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
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try 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
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision Yourself
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Gift Greatness Love Myself Parents Value
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
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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Arrival Compromise Constitution Country Start Writing Yourself
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
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
It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
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Enemy Kill Thinking Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Decision Fact Goodness Stand Way
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
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past

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