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

Donald Rumsfeld

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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Consult Decision Ideas Market Perspective Test
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
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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Challenge Interesting Life Public Service Time
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
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary
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
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
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Ego Government Moderate People President
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
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
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
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
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

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