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It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

Colin Powell

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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Children Failure Imitation Ourselves
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 are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Failure Hard Work Inspirational Learning Preparation Result Secret Success
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
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
I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.
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Capability Intention Myself Presentation Regret Weapon Wrong
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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Action Condition Destiny Energy Fulfillment Health Organism
If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
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Depression Fall Intensity Leadership Passion Start Yourself
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
The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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Best Connection Creation Job Resources Team Training Way 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
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
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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Advice Counseling Fear Voice Yourself
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
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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