Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

Quote by Colin Powell

Topics: Death Quotes

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart...

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart...

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will...

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will...

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work

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

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

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you...

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you...

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.

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...

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have...

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have...

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

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...

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best...

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best...

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...

Get mad, then get over it.

Get mad, then get over it.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as...

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as...

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

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

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of...

There is no success without hardship.

There is no success without hardship.