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Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Politician
Soldier
New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.
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The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.
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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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Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.
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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
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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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I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
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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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My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.
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We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start to lose the essence of who we are as an open, freedom-loving people, welcoming to the rest of the world.
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It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.
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Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.
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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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Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
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