"Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal."

Money, Goal, Bureaucracy, Congress

16

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal."

Exlpore more Money quotes

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Money, People, Children, Clothes

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Money, Truth, Life, Power, Regret

"It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Money, Good, Way

"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Money, Truth, Religion, Wisdom, Power

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Money,

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Money, Trust

"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."

Joseph Campbell, American Author

Money, Job, Order

"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Money, Slavery, Trade, Life

"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Money, Enemy, Order, Want

"A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Money, Desire, Life, Truth

Explore more quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

People

"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."

Creativity

"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."

Integrity

"Preserve the President's options. He may need them."

Politics

"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."

People

"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."

Truth

"In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership."

Leadership

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Death

"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

Woman

"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."

Decision-Making