Colin Powell Quotes on Work & Career (14 Quotes)

There are no secrets to success. Don't waste your time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

We have a number of things working right now, quietly, to get the situation stabilized and start the violence moving down, rather than up, ... We don't always run out every day with a banner headline, but I can assure you we are hard at work.

The Bush administration has been hard at work on this for a number of months -- phone calls, emissaries, consultations with other world leaders have, I think, started to produce some results,

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

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

They did quite a bit of good work, but we also discovered that once defectors came out, they told us more information than the inspectors ever had found,

There comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work.

participate in the work in Iraq either as part of the coalition effort or ... perhaps to provide security, facilities or protection to the U.N.

The minister gave me assurances that they are hard at work on that. And we'll be exchanging more information on the subject,

The inspectors are going back in for one single purpose, and that is to make sure that Iraq is complying with the agreements it make at the end of the Gulf War to give up all weapons of mass destruction activity, ... The only way we can be sure of that is if the inspectors go back in, are allowed to do their work.

If it is ever clear that where we are working now is not safe, then we will go somewhere else to work,

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

I don't think the American people should be getting the impression their president and their government was not hard at work on this from day one,

It is not making people available. It is not making documents available. It is deceiving the inspectors. It is trying to make it harder for the inspectors to do their work.