Wrong Leader Quotes

#1. To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.

Aubrey Malphurs

#2. Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party.

Louise Penny

#3. We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

Rand Paul

#4. It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.

Dallin H. Oaks

#5. As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.

Michael A. Wood Jr.

#6. A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.

Michael Ballack

#7. 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Ken Follett

#8. A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience.

Farshad Asl

#9. A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

Bill Courtney

#10. Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

Tom DeMarco

#11. I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

David Cameron

#12. Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

Warren G. Bennis

#13. No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

Rupert Murdoch

#14. Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year was the refusal to face facts.(1075)

Ken Follett

#15. My littermates said I was too small ... too weak. But I have proven them wrong. I've learned how to live for blood. Because that's the key. The only answer. I am leader of BloodClan. I am Scourge. And I have won!

Erin Hunter

#16. China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could also turn out to be the biggest losers if they handle it poorly. If the management turns out be wrong, this could lead to a political crisis in China.

George Soros

#17. Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

Charles Evers

#18. The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.

Terry Pratchett

#19. A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

Simon Sinek

#20. When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

Richmond Akhigbe

#21. Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is about making mistakes and learning from them. He wasn't shy to admit when things went wrong.

Kevin Allen

#22. You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody else for it. And you got to dig up some poor-ass idiot that don't have the brain of a retarded spastican and make him a cult leader!

Charles Manson

#23. We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it ... No grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.

Robert H. Jackson

#24. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...

Cressida Cowell

#25. The leader sets the tone for his followers. If something goes wrong and the leader acts worried or angry, then everyone picks up on that attitude and it spirals larger and larger.

Jim Korkis

#26. If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

Malcolm Gladwell

#27. To become a leader you must have a positive mental attitude, which you can achieve with positive self-talk and looking at what is right with people instead of what is wrong with them.

Elaine Meryl Brown

#28. At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

Kevin Allen

#29. As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.

Hal Elrod

#30. The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.

Leonard Slatkin

#31. The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

Stephen Covey

#32. The leader's prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

John C. Maxwell

#33. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

#34. Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change.

Beth Ramsay

#35. I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).

Anne Lamott

#36. Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

John C. Maxwell