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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.

Colin Powell

One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
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
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
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
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.
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Important Influence Life Live Touch Value
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
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Attitude Leadership Role Thinking Win
Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Advantage Afraid Challenge
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Accomplishment Art Leadership Management Possible
It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.
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Change Discussion Friendship Ourselves Role

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