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Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Donald Rumsfeld

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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Lawyer Reduce Stream
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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Army 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
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
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
Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.
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Care Leadership Learm People Position
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
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Criticism Publicity Receive
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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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Deliver Failure President Price Truth
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational

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