If you try to please everybody, somebody is not going to like it.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
-- Donald Rumsfeld
Related:
- If you try to please everyone,
somebody is not going to like it... - If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Donald... - Don't speak ill of your predecessors (or successors) -
you did not walk in their shoes. -- Donald... - With the press, it is safest to assume that there is no "off the record."
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Donald... - Chisholm's First Corollary: If you do something that you are
sure will meet with everybody's approval,
somebody won't like it... - Keep your sense of humor about your position.
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Donald... - Never say "The White House wants"- buildings don't "want."
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Donald... - How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than
yourself.
Everybody should try it. -- Barbara... - I cannot give you a formula for success but I can give you the formula
for failure-
which is: Try to please everybody. -- Herbert Bayard...
From the same category:
- Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you.
Henry... - To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end of life. -- Robert Louis... - A guru went to the dentist and said,
"I'd like to transcend dental medication."
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Dr. Dean... - Who can take the demands of the SDS seriously?
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Nathan... - Telephone, n.:
An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the
advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose...
