Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

Quote by Colin Powell

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The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody...

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody...

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and...

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and...

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in...

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in...

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work...

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work...

I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I...

I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I...

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to...

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to...

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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

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

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under...

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under...

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

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

Get mad, then get over it.

Get mad, then get over it.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which...

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which...

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

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

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

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work...

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work...

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around...

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my...

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my...