90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
- Colin Powell Quote

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
- Colin Powell Quote

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
- Colin Powell Quote

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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Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
- Colin Powell Quote

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
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Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
- Colin Powell Quote

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
- Colin Powell Quote

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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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
- Colin Powell Quote

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
- Colin Powell Quote

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
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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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Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villains. I'm down to Castro and Kim II Sung.
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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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