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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Donald Rumsfeld

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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Improvement Performance President Value Wonder
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
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Lawyer Reduce Stream
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Agreement can always be reached by increasing the generality of the conclusion; when this is done, the form is generally preserved but only the illusion of policy is created.
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Agreement Conclusion Creation Illusion Increase Policy
There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don’t know.
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Imagination Knowledge
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
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Challenge Interesting Life Public Service Time
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
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Deliver Failure President Price Truth
It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Criticism Mistake Principle Task
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Consult Decision Ideas Market Perspective Test

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