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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.

Donald Rumsfeld

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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
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
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
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 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
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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Criticism Mistake Principle Task
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
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right

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