#wil

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. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#back #backwards #clear #find #forward

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#improve #performance #president #resign #value

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#decisions #guidance #lacks #policy #random

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#family #family business #fine #first #help

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#before #egos #entering #good #good reason

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#accident #american #american people #country #each

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#fear #overcome #thinking #will

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge. ↗

— Damon Runyon

#edge #only #over #walk #willing

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do. ↗

— Otis Rush

#arranger #band #before #had #hell is

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian