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

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
Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic Yourself
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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Clothes Himself Organization Rebel Tolerance
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
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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Job Leadership Motivational Organization People Planning Strategy
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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Blood Death Expert Judgement Reality World
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
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
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
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Achievement Attitude Development Excellence Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Determination Dreams Hard Work Magic Reality Sweat
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
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism

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