60 Quotes By - Colin Powell | Status Free Download
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
— Colin Powell
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
— 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
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
— 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
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
— 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
Get mad, then get over it.
— Colin Powell
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
— 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
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
— Colin Powell
You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.
— Colin Powell
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
— Colin Powell
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
— Colin Powell
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
— Colin Powell
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
— Colin Powell
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
— Colin Powell
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
— Colin Powell
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
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
— Colin Powell
Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don't see why we shouldn't use them against identified enemy targets.
— Colin Powell
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
— Colin Powell
Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.
— Colin Powell
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
— Colin Powell
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
— Colin Powell
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
— Colin Powell
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
— Colin Powell
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
— Colin Powell
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
— Colin Powell
Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
— Colin Powell
There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.
— Colin Powell
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
I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
— Colin Powell
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
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
— 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
Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.
— 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
We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken.
— Colin Powell
Russia isn't going to start a war. They can't afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.
— Colin Powell
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.
— Colin Powell
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
— Colin Powell
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
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
— Colin Powell
The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.
— Colin Powell
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
— Colin Powell
Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
— Colin Powell
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.
— Colin Powell
You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's 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
Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
— Colin Powell
Trump has no sense of shame.
— Colin Powell
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
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
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
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
— 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
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
— Colin Powell
Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that 'shining city on a hill.' And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can't do it on the cheap.
— Colin Powell
You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy.
— Colin Powell
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