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"Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive."
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"You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal."
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Personal Development

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

"Work out the details in achieving your dreams."
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Personal Development

"You should create a system or structure helping you to turn your dream into reality."
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Personal Development

"We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out."
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Personal Development

"Before you start working hard on your goals and dreams, be very sure that you have the right information. Working hard on the wrong plan or information would never take you anywhere. Learn from the great people that came before you."
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Personal Development

"A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport fees."
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Personal Development

"Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream."
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Personal Development

"Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream."
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Personal Development

"So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
Want

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
People

"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."
Creativity

"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."
Woman

"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."
Decision-Making

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
Death

"Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House."
People

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

"It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task."
Mistake

"When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views."
President
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