Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
DONALD RUMSFELDThe way to do well is to do well.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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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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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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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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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Remember where you came from.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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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 we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
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