Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions]. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like.… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
How can we be enemies when there is so much that pulls us together? But in general I found that I had… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You can never err by treating everyone in the building with respect, thoughtfulness, and a kind word. Everyone of our employees is… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. 2. Get mad, then get over it.… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Change of regime with respect to Iraq had nothing to do with this; it had everything to do with the fact that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I served 40 years in government, and I'm not looking forward to a position or an assignment. Of course, I have always… — 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
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share
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
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
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us. — Colin Powell Copy Share
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
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
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. — Colin Powell Copy Share
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
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
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off. — Colin Powell Copy Share
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.… — Colin Powell Copy Share
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