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…

Quote by Colin Powell

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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

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

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

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got...

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got...

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...

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.

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...

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've...

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've...

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Get mad, then get over it.

Get mad, then get over it.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we...

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we...

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.

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it...

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it...

The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached...

The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached...

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June...

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June...