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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

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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Motivational
Leader
Team
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Tone

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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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You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Remain calm, be kind.
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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
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We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies.
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We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against al-Qaida We did not ignore al-Qaida. We spent a lot of our time thinking about terrorism, what should we do about it.
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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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You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
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I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have a free, open, fair election, for their forces to be built up, for our reconstruction money to be used well, and for Iraqi security forces to take over so we can start bringing our troops home.
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As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.
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President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.
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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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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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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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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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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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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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