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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
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New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.
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You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.
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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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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.
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The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.
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The person who will decide whether or not there will be war or peace is Saddam Hussein, and all he has to do is give up these terrible weapons that he has used to kill fellow Arabs, fellow Muslims in that part of the world, and to step away from his past behaviour which invaded neighbouring countries.
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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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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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One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.
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America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.
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The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.
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Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
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I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.
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We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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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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Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.
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