Colin Powell

The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there’s a sense of pride.

Colin Powell

There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

Colin Powell

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage. Good chaplains pick up the pieces and put everything together again.

Colin Powell

You are the leader and the troops will reflect your emotions.

Colin Powell

You can’t get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

Colin Powell

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Colin Powell

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

Colin Powell

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.

Colin Powell

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don’t finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don’t finish high school.

Colin Powell