Colin Luther Powell Quotes

• Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Failure, Perfection, Success, Work

  Tags in Learning, Loyalty, Persistence

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Area, Saying

• Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Bean, Tough, Serious, Stuff

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

  Colin Luther Powell

  Tags in Organization

• No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enemies

• Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Vigilant, Mind

• Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Position, Egotism

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Race, Stories

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in Confidence, Leadership

  Tags in Leading, Problems, Soldiers, Day

• It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nice

• It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Disgrace, Uninsured, Millions

• 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

• It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Bad, Morning

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Habit, Excellence

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in College

  Tags in School

• I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Trying

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nuclear, Weapon

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

  Colin Luther Powell

  Tags in Speeches, Generosity, Spend

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in History

  Tags in Handled

• I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defense, Pretty

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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