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 RUMSFELDKnow that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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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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Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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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.
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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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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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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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Remember where you came from.
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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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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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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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