Colin Powell Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

  Colin Powell

  Mean, Differences, Mad

• It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Interesting, Enemy

• In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But there is another thing that we do in the military, that I think perhaps isn't done enough in corporate life: As soon as you have made that decision, you start on the contingency planning. Because there is, as we like to say, a thinking, breathing enemy out there, who is not going to let you do just what you want.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Army, Thinking

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

  Colin Powell

  Enemy, Accounts, Strategist

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• How can we be enemies when there is so much that pulls us together? But in general I found that I had to work with each one of my foreign colleagues in a way that was consistent with their system. Some are democracies, some are not.

  Colin Powell

  Enemy, Democracy, Together

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Believe, Communication

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