Donald Rumsfeld Quotes on Success (10 Quotes)

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

We discussed the impressive economic progress China has made in recent years and the emergence of China on the world scene. We also talked about the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the success of China's second manned space flight for which I offer my congratulations,

Rumsfeld said victory would best come as part of a military coalition led by the United States. ...Iraq should be a single country and not broken up into pieces, ... ... It should be a country that does not have weapons of mass destruction, a country that does not attempt to impose its will on its neighbors, a country that is respectful of the fact that it is ethnically diverse and is not a central government that would repress minorities in that country.

It isn't a complete success, ... We've got a lot of difficult work yet to do. Today is a very good day, it's wonderful to see the faces of people who have been liberated.

Success will only occur if there's progress on the political front so that the Iraqi people see that in fact it is their country. It is a sovereign nation. They are in control of it,

But those deadly acts, and they were deadly, proved not to be harbingers of victory.

We're capable of winning decisively in one and swiftly defeating in the case of the other. And let there be no doubt about it.

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.

Rather, success will be when there is a free Iraq where Iraqis are the guarantor of their own security with minimal coalition involvement, and that will be a historic accomplishment.

The immediate effect is likely to be what it's always been -- a spike in violence. The last thing in the world the enemies want is success. The last thing they want is democracy in Iraq.