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Donald Rumsfeld

"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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"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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"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."

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"Your future will definitely head to the same direction with your thoughts, this is why planning your thought is so important."

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"For me, to say I yet to begin gives me reasons not to look back and see what I have done but ,to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do."

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

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"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"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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"You have to be strategic in your action."

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