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“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”

Source: “Colin Powell's 13 Rules”, Parade, 13 August 1989

Context This is another of the 13 rules he kept on his desk, printed in Parade in August 1989 while he was the four-star general heading US Army Forces Command.

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