“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
Business
“Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!”
BirthdayAll Quotes by Colin Powell
“My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.”
Experience“Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.”
Business“Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.”
Best“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
Health“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
Attitude“We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.”
Government“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
History“Get mad, then get over it.”
Anger“What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”
Society“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.”
Politics“It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'”
Anger“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”
Work“A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
Dreams“Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!”
Birthday“In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.”
Great“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.”
Age“You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.”
Power“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.”
Attitude“Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.”
Hope