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"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."
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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
"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
"Preserve the President's options. He may need them."
Politics
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
Death
"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."
Integrity
"When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views."
President
"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
"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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Personal Development
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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Personal Development
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
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Personal Development
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
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Personal Development
"I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision."
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Personal Development
"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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Personal Development
"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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Personal Development
"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
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Personal Development
"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
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Personal Development
"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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Personal Development
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