Get mad, then get over it.
- Colin Powell - In Anger
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
- Colin Powell - In Anger
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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.
- Colin Powell - In Business
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell - In Business
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
- Colin Powell - In Business
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
- Colin Powell - In History
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90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
- Colin Powell - In History
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
- Lawrence Clark Powell - In Technology
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Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea.
- Lawrence Clark Powell - In Technology
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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.
- Colin Powell - In War
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