Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
DONALD RUMSFELDThere are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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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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If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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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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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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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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Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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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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Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.
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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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