Remember where you came from.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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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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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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First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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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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What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
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The way to do well is to do well.
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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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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