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Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.

Donald Rumsfeld

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Army War
Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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Leadership Money Option President
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
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
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
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
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Motivational Work Hard
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
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 in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
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

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