Colin Powell Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about: Leadership

• The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Military, Army

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Leadership, Mean

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.85, Ballantine Books

• My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Country, Military

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.612, Ballantine Books

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

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Trying

  Colin Powell, Joseph E Persico (2011). “A Soldier's Way: An Autobiography”, p.150, Random House

• The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Fields, Call Of Duty

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.753, Ballantine Books

• Trust is the essence of Leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Essence

• You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, People, Curiosity

• Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Errors, Trial And Error

• Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

  Colin Powell

  Inspiring, Leadership, Art

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

• Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Mind, Details

• It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Jobs, Engagement

• Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Moving, Fire

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