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Don't just count your days, make your days count.

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
Days
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The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.
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Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.
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Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.
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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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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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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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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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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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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.
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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
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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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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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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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I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
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Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.
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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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We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.
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Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.
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