Colin Powell Quotes

Best Quotes by Colin Powell (Top 10)

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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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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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 state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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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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Get mad, then get over it.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
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Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
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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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Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find
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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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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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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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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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