If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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Remember where you came from.
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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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The way to do well is to do well.
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Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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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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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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Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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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.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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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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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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