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Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.

Donald Rumsfeld

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
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
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
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
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
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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Ballot Lose Politics Rule Win
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
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
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
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Family Friendship Person Position Publicity
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
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Criticism Publicity Receive

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