Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
COLIN POWELLThe 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.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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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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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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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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Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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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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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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