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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
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
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
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
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
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
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
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Goals Head Obstacle Work
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
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
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
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War

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