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You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

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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I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.
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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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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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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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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.
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Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.
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The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
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I think all of the attention of the world, to include the attention of the Arab world, should be on Saddam Hussein and whether or not he is prepared to give up the weapons of mass destruction that he has used to terrorise the region.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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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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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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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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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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