With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
DONALD RUMSFELDMany people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Remember where you came from.
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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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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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Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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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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Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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The way to do well is to do well.
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