Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
DONALD RUMSFELDYou go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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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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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
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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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Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.
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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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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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Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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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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It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Remember where you came from.
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