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  • In the military we also learn principles of war which also work in a corporate setting: How do you concentrate as much of your force as possible on a critical point and take a risk elsewhere? In business that translates into focusing your investment on marketing, sales, or R&D, whichever will give you the greatest return.

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    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
  • Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

    Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership”, Harper Collins
  • We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace.

    Remarks at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 26 Jan. 2003
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Colin Powell

  • Born: April 5, 1937
  • Occupation: Former United States Secretary of State