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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Donald Rumsfeld

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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Improvement Performance President Value Wonder
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 you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
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
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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Fact Lie People
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 develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
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Family Friendship Person Position Publicity
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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Customer Distance Management Organization
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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

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