All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
COLIN POWELLYou know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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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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It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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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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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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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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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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In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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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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