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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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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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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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Bahrain is moving at one pace, Morocco another, Qatar at another, Kuwait at yet another. And we are there to assist our friends.
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The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.
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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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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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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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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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One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.
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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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In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.
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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.
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An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
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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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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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