Donald Rumsfeld Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Success, Mistake, Errors

• Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Stupid, Iraq

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 12 Apr. 2003

• It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Tasks, Critical

• If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, President, Delay

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

• Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Trying, Administration

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

• The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wall, Mistake, Ladders

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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