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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.
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Lawyer Reduce Stream
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Deep Philosophy
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
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
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Business Error Move On People Performance Politics Training Wrong
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
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
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
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
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
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
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
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
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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Agreement Conclusion Creation Illusion Increase Policy

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