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Colin Powell (Politician)

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
— Colin Powell people
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
— colin powell love
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 leadership
The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
— colin powell people
One of the fondest expressions around is that [America] can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
— colin powell world
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.
— colin powell leaders
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
— colin powell men
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
— colin powell life
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
— colin powell age
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
— colin powell people
Keep looking below the surface apperances. Dont shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
— Colin Powell you
There are no secrets to success: dont waste time looking for them, success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work and persistence.
— Colin Powell success
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
— Colin Powell focus
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
— Colin Powell success
It aint as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
— Colin Powell you
Get mad, then get over it.
— Colin Powell
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think Ill like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
— Colin Powell men
Fit no stereotypes. Dont chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the teams mission.
— Colin Powell men
I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
— Colin Powell day
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
— Colin Powell optimism
Organization doesnt really accomplish anything. Plans dont accomplish anything, either. Theories of management dont much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
— Colin Powell people
The presidents military advisers felt that the size of the force was adequate, they may still feel that years later. Some of us dont, I dont.
— Colin Powell military
Never neglect details. When everyones mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
— Colin Powell mind
I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I was not sure we had enough troops. The case was made, it was listened to, it was considered.A judgment was made by those responsible that the troop strength was adequate.
— Colin Powell men
They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it turned out to be not exactly as they had anticipated.
— Colin Powell media
I dont want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
— Colin Powell life
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
— Colin Powell success
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 attitude
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
— Colin Powell battle
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
— Colin Powell ego
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
— Colin Powell age
Keep looking below surface appearances. Dont shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
— Colin Powell you
You cant just have slogans, you cant just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if its going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
— Colin Powell art
Wouldnt it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
— Colin Powell war
Its a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again.
— Colin Powell time
Its nice to say lets be bipartisan. But were a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
— Colin Powell art
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 leadership
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think theyre being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that Im black. I tell them, Dont stop now. If I shot somebody youd mention it.
— Colin Powell men
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
— Colin Powell art
Politics is not bean bags. Its serious, tough stuff.
— Colin Powell politics
Some of the generals are saying, Were making progress. We are clearing an area. But you really dont defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
— Colin Powell progress
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.
— Colin Powell life
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
— Colin Powell man
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
— Colin Powell people
The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, Gee, isnt that wonderful?
— Colin Powell art
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.
— Colin Powell peace
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
— Colin Powell world
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.
— Colin Powell hope
Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because were giving them children who have, you know, theyre not ready to learn. And if theyre not ready to learn by the third grade, they know theyre behind.
— Colin Powell children
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.
— Colin Powell politics
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didnt come back, and make sure the Taliban wasnt resurging. It didnt work out.
— Colin Powell hope

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