Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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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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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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Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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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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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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If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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