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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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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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New York City
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Colin Luther Powell
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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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I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.
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Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I have made good decisions and have been overruled. The real challenge, when you are overruled, is to remember who the boss is and don't take it personally.
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
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With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.
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Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
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Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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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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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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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 don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
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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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Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.
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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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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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