Colin Luther Powell quotes Born: 04/05/1937 Country: usa

• Experts often possess more data than judgment. (Colin Powell) [experts/more]
• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. (Colin Powell)
• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. (Colin Powell) [result]
• Either move or be moved. (Colin Powell)
• The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. (Colin Powell) [competition/people]
• 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. (Colin Powell)
• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. (Colin Powell)
• Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)
• Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. (Colin Powell)
• But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. (Colin Powell)
• Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. (Colin Powell)
• Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. (Colin Powell)
• 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. (Colin Powell)
• Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. (Colin Powell)
• Get mad, then get over it. (Colin Powell)
• Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. (Colin Powell)
• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. (Colin Powell)
• 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. (Colin Powell)
• I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters. (Colin Powell)
• I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. (Colin Powell)
• I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. (Colin Powell)
• I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon (Colin Powell)
• I try to be the same person I was yesterday. (Colin Powell)
• 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)
• 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)
• It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. (Colin Powell)
• It's 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)
• It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. (Colin Powell)
• 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)
• 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.' (Colin Powell)
• 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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