A Quote by Donald Rumsfeld
The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.
Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.
Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers
With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
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