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If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
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Ego Government Moderate People President
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
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Expectation Improvement Inspect Measure Military Rule
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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Customer Distance Management Organization
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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Army War
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
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Consult Decision Ideas Market Perspective Test
Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.
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Evidence Existence
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
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Decision Government Imperfection Knowledge Politics Reflection War

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

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