Colin Powell Quotes
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
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Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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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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Get mad, then get over it.
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Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
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Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
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I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
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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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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
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Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
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Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.
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Have a vision. Be demanding.
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Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
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Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
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Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villains. I'm down to Castro and Kim II Sung.
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If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Remain calm. Be kind.
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President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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Facing the possibility of a 9/11, you had to give some -- some flexibility to the CIA ... It's easy now in the cold light of day to look back and say, you shouldn't have done any of that.
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Rush will not get his wish and Mr. Cheney was misinformed – I am still a Republican.
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If we don't reach out more, the party is going to be sitting on a very, very narrow base ... You can only do two things with a base. You can sit on it and watch the world go by, or you can build on the base.
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The Republican Party is losing north, south, east, west; men, woman, white, blacks and Hispanics.
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Mr. Cheney is not only disagreeing with President Obama’s policy.
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I believe we should build on the base because the nation needs two parties, two parties debating each other.
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I think that's the message that came out of Congress: We can't give you $80 million.
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I felt Guantanamo should be closed for the past six years, and I lobbied and presented reasons to president (George W.) Bush.
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The Republican Party has to take a hard look at itself and decide what kind of party are we.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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You break it, you own it.
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This may sound a little improper, but when the Vice President and I are alone it's Colin and Dick.
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Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war [Vietnam], vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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Command is lonely.
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