top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control."
Standard
Customized
More
"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Stability, insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"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
"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."
Integrity
"Preserve the President's options. He may need them."
Politics
"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."
People
"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."
Truth
"In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership."
Leadership
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
Death
"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
bottom of page