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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

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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One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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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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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.
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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
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With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.
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Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
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Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
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Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.
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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
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With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.
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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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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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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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