Quote #12

'The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.'

More from Colin Powell

  1. 'That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.'
  2. 'The policies - determining who would be drafted and who would be deferred, who would serve and who would escape, who would die and who wou…
  3. 'I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.' (Upon hearing that President Bush was 'sleeping like a baby' on the…
  4. 'Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war [Vietnam], vowed that when our turn came …
  5. 'This may sound a little improper, but when the Vice President and I are alone it's Colin and Dick.'
  6. 'Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.'
  7. 'There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm polic…
  8. 'Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.'

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