Colin Powell

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Colin Powell

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 to those for whom you work, and persistence.

Colin Powell

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

Colin Powell

You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.

Colin Powell

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

Colin Powell

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Colin Powell

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together – man, you got it.

Colin Powell

Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.

Colin Powell

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

Colin Powell