427 Quotes by Colin Powell

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

They can't violate their agreements and then say we violated, what will you pay us to get out of the violation,

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

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.

Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.

In order to prevent any loss of life beyond that which may have occurred already, it would be wise for Iraqi leaders to recognize that their day is over and that this is going to happen.

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people