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If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.

Donald Rumsfeld

Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
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
There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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Improvement Performance President Value Wonder
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
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
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
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
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
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Government Human Being Politics

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