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Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
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Soldier
New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.
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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
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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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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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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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Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].
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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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We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
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I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.
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Don't just count your days, make your days count.
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Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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