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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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Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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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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With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Remember where you came from.
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Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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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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The way to do well is to do well.
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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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