Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
DONALD RUMSFELDPolitics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
DONALD RUMSFELDDon’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf you develop rules, never have more than ten.
DONALD RUMSFELDThere 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.
DONALD RUMSFELDWith the press there is no ‘off the record.’
DONALD RUMSFELDLearn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
DONALD RUMSFELDReduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
DONALD RUMSFELDAgreement 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.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
DONALD RUMSFELDEveryone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
DONALD RUMSFELDTreat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
DONALD RUMSFELDDon’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
DONALD RUMSFELDIt is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
DONALD RUMSFELD