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It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership QUOTES

It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership QUOTES

1 " Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

2 " This was the closest anybody in Iraq came to finding WMDs.
Even though it was obvious to me and my staff that there was
no way the vans could have produced biological weapons, a month
after we got the photos, the CIA published a twenty-eight-page
pamphlet insisting that was what they were for.
…I was bewildered - Colin Powell "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

3 " ON BUSY BASTARDS: A busy bastard can’t stop finding things to do. He never rests and as a result, his staff never rests. He’s always making work that expands to fill whatever time is available. The point I make in my book is: Be busy, work hard, but don’t become so busy that you cut out other things in life, like family and recreation and hobbies. And never be so busy that you’re not giving your staff and your followers enough time to do the same thing. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

4 " I again suppressed a smile. Time didn't permit an exposition about the place of the dairy lobby in the American political system. "

― Tony Koltz, , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

5 " During my career I’ve worked with intelligence agencies and experts of every kind, from a young lieutenant, battalion-level intelligence officer to all sixteen branches of the U.S. intelligence community. With rare exceptions, intelligence analysts do all they can to give you the information and facts you need to understand the enemy and the situation and come up with the best decision. "

― Colin Powell, , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

6 " The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading. If your desk is clean and no one is bringing you problems, you should be very worried. It means that people don't think you can solve them or don't want to hear about them. Or, far worse, it means they don't think you care. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

7 " The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

8 " No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

9 " Few people make sound or sustainable decisions in an atmosphere of chaos. The more serious the situation, usually accompanied by a deadline, the more likely everyone will get excited and bounce around like water on a hot skillet. At those times I try to establish a calm zone but retain a sense of urgency. Calmness protects order, ensures that we consider all the possibilities, restores order when it breaks down, and keeps people from shouting over each other. You are in a storm. The captain must steady the ship, watch all the gauges, listen to all the department heads, and steer through it. If the leader loses his head, confidence in him will be lost and the glue that holds the team together will start to give way. So assess the situation, move fast, be decisive, but remain calm and never let them see you sweat. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

10 " Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

11 " Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

12 " • Tell me what you know. •  Tell me what you don’t know. •  Then tell me what you think. • Always distinguish which from which. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

13 " Whenever you place the cause of one of your actions outside yourself, it’s an excuse and not a reason. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

14 " IT AIN’T AS BAD AS YOU THINK. IT WILL LOOK BETTER IN THE MORNING. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

15 " never, never, never give up. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

16 " You are the leader and the troops will reflect your emotions. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

17 " If you take the pay, earn it. Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don’t disappoint yourself. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

18 " I get over it quickly and never lose control of myself. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

19 " Never Walk Past a Mistake This is one of the first lessons drilled into young military leaders. To put it another way: make on-the-spot corrections. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

20 " What is a leader?” people ask me. My simple answer: “Someone unafraid to take charge. Someone people respond to and are willing to follow.” I believe that leaders must be born with a natural connection and affinity to others, which then must be encouraged and developed by parents and teachers and molded by training, experience, and mentoring. You can learn to be a better leader. And you can also waste your natural talents by ceasing to learn and grow. "

― , It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership