Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Colin Powell quotes, Colin Powell sayings, and Colin Powell proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.Colin Powell
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Get mad, then get over it.Colin Powell
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.Colin Powell
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.Colin Powell
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.Colin Powell
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.Colin Powell
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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
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Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.Colin Powell
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Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.Colin Powell
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.Colin Powell
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.Colin Powell
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.Colin Powell
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.Colin Powell
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.Colin Powell
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Colin Powell
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.Colin Powell
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Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.Colin Powell
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.Colin Powell
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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. Colin Powell
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.Colin Powell
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.Colin Powell
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Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.Colin Powell
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.Colin Powell
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Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.Colin Powell
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The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.Colin Powell
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.Colin Powell
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Have a vision. Be demanding.Colin Powell
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Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations? Colin Powell
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.Colin Powell
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