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

Donald Rumsfeld

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
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
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Expectation Improvement Inspect Measure Military Rule
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary
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
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
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Decision Government Imperfection Knowledge Politics Reflection War
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
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
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
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

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