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

Donald Rumsfeld

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Fact Lie People
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
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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Imagination Knowledge
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
Remember where you came from.
DONALD RUMSFELD

History One Liner Past Remember
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
The way to do well is to do well.
DONALD RUMSFELD

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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Decision Government Imperfection Knowledge Politics Reflection War
Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Evidence Existence
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Doubt Inspirational Right
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Challenge Interesting Life Public Service Time
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
DONALD RUMSFELD

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