Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. — Dwight D. Eisenhower · Skopia

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1957

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Remarks at the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. 14 Nov. 1957, Washington DC, USA.

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