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

Colin Powell

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
I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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Difficult Encouragement Myself Policy
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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Command Evidence Prove Right Wrong
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
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value 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
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
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
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
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
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Follow Leadership Mission Primary Purpose Role Vision
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past

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