Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.

We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.