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

Colin Powell

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
One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Development Greatness Oneself Recognition Talent
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
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 let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Decision Fact Goodness Stand Way
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
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Care Choice Yourself
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
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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Constitution Discrimination Origin Reason
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
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

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