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

Donald Rumsfeld

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
First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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Ballot Lose Politics Rule Win
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
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
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
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 it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
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Ego Government Moderate People President
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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Business Error Move On People Performance Politics Training Wrong
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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Fact Lie People
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
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Consult Decision Ideas Market Perspective Test
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule

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

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