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
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More Quotes By Colin Powell
  1. My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

  2. Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

  3. A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

  4. Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

  5. My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

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