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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.

Donald Rumsfeld

Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Criticism Mistake Principle Task
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
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
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Care Leadership Learm People Position
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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
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
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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Agreement Conclusion Creation Illusion Increase Policy
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
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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Business Error Move On People Performance Politics Training Wrong
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax

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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