Colin Powell Leadership Quotes

#1. If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

Tom DeLonge

#2. Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell

#3. The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

H.L. Mencken

#4. It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

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#5. So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? ... I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

Colin Powell

#6. Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Colin Powell

#7. The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Colin Powell

#8. Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Colin Powell

#9. I'm very pleased to introduce the world to Adrian and Sydney Ivashkov.

Richelle Mead

#10. A good mixture of nothing and everything is eating up my head alive.

Anne Sexton

#11. Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Colin Powell

#12. Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

Robert Powell

#13. The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#14. The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

Etel Adnan

#15. There was no denying she could get him all hot and bothered, but she could also soothe him with a look, make him laugh when he felt like crying, and more importantly, he knew she would be there when he needed her to.

Sandra Panting

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

Colin Powell

#17. Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.

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#18. Leadership is all about people ... and getting the most out of people.

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#19. Leadership is solving problems.

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#20. It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.

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#21. The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

#22. Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

Colin Powell