Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
DONALD RUMSFELDArguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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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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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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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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Remember where you came from.
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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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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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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 you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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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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