Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
DONALD RUMSFELDThe way to do well is to do well.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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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.
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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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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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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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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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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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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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If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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