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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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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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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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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.
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Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.
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With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.
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One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
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Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.
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I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.
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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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Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
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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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Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
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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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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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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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