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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
Colin Powell
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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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New York
Colin Luther Powell
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I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.
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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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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 a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
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So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
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The information that the intelligence people used was a combination of satellite information, signals intelligence, and human intelligence. We are not sure to what extent Saddam [Hussein] was trying to convey an incorrect picture to us.
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Don't just count your days, make your days count.
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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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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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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
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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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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
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Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
Colin Powell
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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