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Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.

Donald Rumsfeld

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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
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
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
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.
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Evidence Existence
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
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
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
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Consult Decision Ideas Market Perspective Test
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
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem

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