Colin Powell

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

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.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

Get mad, then get over it.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.