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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.

Donald Rumsfeld

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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Business Error Move On People Performance Politics Training Wrong
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
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
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
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
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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Expectation Improvement Inspect Measure Military Rule
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
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
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
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
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness

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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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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