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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Colin Powell

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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Command Evidence Prove Right Wrong
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Advantage Afraid Challenge
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself
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
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Art Leadership Management Possible Science
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need 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
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
One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Development Greatness Oneself Recognition Talent
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself

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