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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

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
Prevailing
Exception
Excellence
Perfection
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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Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.
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One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.
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The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.
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Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
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America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.
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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.
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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
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The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.
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You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.
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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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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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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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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.
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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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