The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
COLIN POWELLMaybe 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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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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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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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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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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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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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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Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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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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Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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