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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Blame Boss Enough Problem
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
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
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
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
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
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard

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