Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
DONALD RUMSFELDDon’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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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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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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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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Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Remember where you came from.
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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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