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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Donald Rumsfeld

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Deliver Failure President Price Truth
The way to do well is to do well.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Inspirational One Liner
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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Decision Government Imperfection Knowledge Politics Reflection War
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
It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Criticism Mistake Principle Task
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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Care Leadership Learm People Position
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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Army 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
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
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
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

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