Quote #17

'If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.'

More from Colin Powell

  1. 'Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.'
  2. 'Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.'
  3. 'Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.'
  4. 'Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy.…
  5. 'Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war [Vietnam], vowed that when our turn came …
  6. 'The First Amendment exists to insure that freedom of speech and expression applies not just to that with which we agree or disagree, but a…
  7. '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…
  8. 'The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.'

All Colin Powell quotes