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Donald Rumsfeld

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
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
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
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Family Friendship Person Position Publicity
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 you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
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
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
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
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
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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
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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Challenge Interesting Life Public Service Time
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk

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