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Donald Rumsfeld

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
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
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
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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Customer Distance Management Organization
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
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Criticism Publicity Receive
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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
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 it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
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Goals Head Obstacle Work
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics

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