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Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Donald Rumsfeld

If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Fact Intelligence
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Criticism Inspirational
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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Care Leadership Learm People Position
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Please Try
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Business Error Move On People Performance Politics Training Wrong
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
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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Agreement Conclusion Creation Illusion Increase Policy
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
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
DONALD RUMSFELD

Media Record
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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Imagination Knowledge
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Appropriate Learn Often
Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Evidence Existence
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Advice Rule
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Earn Money Tax
Remember where you came from.
DONALD RUMSFELD

History One Liner Past Remember
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Blame Boss Enough Problem

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