American - Statesman | April 5, 1937 -
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Colin Powell
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Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
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Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.
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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.
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If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
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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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Get mad, then get over it.
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I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
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What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
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