Colin Luther Powell Quotes

• Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

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  Tags in Giving, Charity

• The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

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  Tags in Wrong, Right

• 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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  Topics in Management

  Tags in Team Work, Opinions

• 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 them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

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  Topics in Confidence, Leadership

  Tags in Good

• 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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  Topics in Health, Life

  Tags in Action
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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

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  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Learn, Secret

• 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.

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  Topics in Business

• Get mad, then get over it.

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  Topics in Anger

• Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

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  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Backyard

• The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

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  Tags in International, Contributor

• I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

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  Tags in Generosity, Spend, Speeches

• 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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  Topics in History

  Tags in Handled

• Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

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  Tags in Organization

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Political

• Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Schools

• We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Government, Iraqi

Colin Luther Powell (76)

Birth:	5th April, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Soldier

About

Colin Luther Powell was born in New York City, New York. He is an American politician and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position.  During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor. He received his BS degree in geology from the City College of New York in 1958 and was a self-admitted C average student. He was later able to earn a MBA degree from the George Washington University in 1971, after his second tour in Vietnam.

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