Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

Remember that you cannot please everybody because you are likely to end up pleasing nobody.

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

I fear that the public at home expect too prompt results.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

If you're going to ask people to pay a premium price, you have to deliver a premium product. Not enough 3D movies have delivered on that promise. People got tired of it, and that's why they started to turn their back on 3D.

You can have so many different demands; trying to please the fans, pleasing the manager, please yourself.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

Obviously most of the western world has an image of Jesus in their minds, [and] I'm pretty sure I don't fit that many. You always know if you take on that role, you're going to disappoint a lot of people in the process. I did my best.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

I like expectations, with expectations, you have people coming at you from a place of doubt.

Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.