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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.

Donald Rumsfeld

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
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
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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Imagination Knowledge
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
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.
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Deliver Failure President Price Truth
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
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
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
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Lawyer Reduce Stream
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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