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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Donald Rumsfeld

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Goals Head Obstacle Work
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Criticism Inspirational
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
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
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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Fact Lie People
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
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
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Deep Philosophy
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Government Human Being Politics
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
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

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