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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

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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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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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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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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We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.
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The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.
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Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the fact of the matter is we do rely on imported oil to fuel our economy and to fuel our nation.
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You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances.
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The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.
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Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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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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