I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently.… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them, success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Colin Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/390/colin-powell-691_combination_it-is-not-our-place-to-decide-who-should_3213114.jpg)
