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Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

Donald Rumsfeld

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Lawyer Reduce Stream
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
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, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
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
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
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
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
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
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.
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Imagination Knowledge
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Improvement Performance President Value Wonder

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

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