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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Listen Myself Serious Talk War
Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Ideas Integrity Man Myself
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

People Thinking Waste Yourself
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Myself Word Worry
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Easy Search
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Art Leadership People
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Company Learning Yourself
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Achievement Foundation Security Strength
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Fight Peace

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