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The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

Colin Powell

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
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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Born Errors Experience Leadership Learning
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
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
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
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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Earn Follow Leadership Mandatory Respect
An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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Difficult Face Organization People
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
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
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
Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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People Perspective Right Yourself
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself

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