Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. – Colin Powell
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. – Colin Powell
I dont think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But thats now history. – Colin Powell
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. – Colin Powell
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. – Mitch Daniels