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Decision-making is lonely.

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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Lonely
Decision

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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.
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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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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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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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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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In the army, all combat officers are taught the Estimate of the Situation: When you are faced with a problem - take that hill, or in business maybe grow your market share - the first thing you do is to make an analysis of your environment.
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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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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
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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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We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
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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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Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
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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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