Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others. (Donald Rumsfeld)

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

Donald Rumsfeld

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