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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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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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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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The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.
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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
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I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
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There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
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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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I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.
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The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.
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I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
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Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
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The president's personal staff has a unique role.
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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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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
Colin Powell