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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.

Donald Rumsfeld

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 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
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
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
Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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Leadership Money Option President
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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Customer Distance Management Organization
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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Army War
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
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
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary

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