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"Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning."
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"In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable house grew increasingly desirable and my dear wife incalculably precious. To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. I didn't want to go. Something had to happen to forbid my going, but it didn't."

"In planning an attack, persons have various roles."

"Plan B is nonsense. Successful people come up with plans A, B, C, D . . . all the way to Z. That's how life works. If you'renot constantly looking for and testing solutions, that's probably why you're on the hamster wheel that you're on right now."

"But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you."

"Divide the target in proportion to the available resources."

"He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."
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"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."

"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."

"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."

"The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it."
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