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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

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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Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
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Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
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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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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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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
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An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
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I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.
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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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Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all the information you are liable to get, start thinking in terms of making a decision. When you have about 70 percent of all the information, you probably ought to decide, because you may lose an opportunity in losing time.
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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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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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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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Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
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It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.
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How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.
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