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

Colin Powell

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
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Detail Double Leadership Mindset
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
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
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
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
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Determination Dreams Hard Work Magic Reality Sweat
The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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Best Connection Creation Job Resources Team Training Way Yourself
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
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
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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Love Man Togetherness Yourself
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need Yourself
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
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth

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