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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Colin Powell

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
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
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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Allow Enough Experience Failure People Situation Young Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
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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Choice Friendship Himself Mirror Reflection
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
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Ego Position Yourself
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
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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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself
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
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Gift Greatness Love Myself Parents Value
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Decision Fact Goodness Stand Way
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself

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