Colin Powell

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

Colin Powell

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Colin Powell

I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

Colin Powell

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

Colin Powell

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Colin Powell

I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.

Colin Powell

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I’m not anxious to rule it in.

Colin Powell

I’m sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.

Colin Powell

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It’s an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

Colin Powell

In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.

Colin Powell