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

Donald Rumsfeld

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
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
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
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.
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Business Error Move On People Performance Politics Training Wrong
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
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
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
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 we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness

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

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