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Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Colin Powell

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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Deal Experience Failure Learning Life 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
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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Country Journey Responsibility Togetherness Try
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
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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Decision Execution Faith Ideas Oneself Person Trust
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Battle Courage Fight Man Yourself
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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Goodness Leadership Move Success
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
Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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People Perspective Right Yourself
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
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Attention Experience Information Intuition Pay Yourself
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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Born Errors Experience Leadership Learning

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