Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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The way to do well is to do well.
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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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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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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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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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Remember where you came from.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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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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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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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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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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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
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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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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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If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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