Colin Powell Quotes

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure-

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

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

ON BUSY BASTARDS: A busy bastard can’t stop finding things to do. He never rests and as a result, his staff never rests. He’s always making work that expands to fill whatever time is available. The point I make in my book is: Be busy, work hard, but don’t become so busy that you cut out other things in life, like family and recreation and hobbies. And never be so busy that you’re not giving your staff and your followers enough time to do the same thing.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

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.

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.