Bad Leadership quotes inspire people in leadership positions to do their best in the positions they hold. Quotes about lousy leadership warn leaders on certain behaviors to avoid and how they can ultimately improve the quality of their lives and services as leaders.
When your boss/leader is a person with a positive approach motivates the whole team to do better. At the same time a bad boss with a negative attitude does not appreciate his team members and drains their energy. The leader should never be egoistic and never disrespect others.
1. People don’t leave bad jobs; they leave bad bosses.
2. Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.
Michael Bassey Johnson
3. Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
John C. Maxwell
4. Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.
Margaret Heffernan
5. My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.
Steve Jobs
6. Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.
Michael Bassey Johnson
7. Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. It’s why the whole world is falling apart.
Suzy Kassem
8. Your actions are too loud. I cannot hear what you’re saying
9. Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.
Suzy Kassem
10. …21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!
Israelmore Ayivor
11. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur
12. A good leader is someone who knows what he’s bad at, and hires someone who’s good at it to take care of it for him.
John Flanagan
13. If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Brigham Young
14. Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.
Michael Hyatt
15. A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.
Paul Kagame
16. The leader is always alone before bad fates.
Charles De Gaulle
17. Be a leader by example. Be confident and humble. Love the unloved.
18. Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.
Rocky Anderson
19. No party is as bad as its leaders.
Will Rogers
20. Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path
Confucius
21. Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
Bill Hybels
22. When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
23. Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.
Warren Bennis
24. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
25. There isn’t good or bad Leadership. There is Leadership or there is not. You are Leading or you are not.
Chris Whipp
26. Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.
Marcia Whicker
27. We can influence people for bad or good.
Johnny Hunt
28. A bad boss is like a disease of the soul
Chetan Bhagat
29. Never waste a good opportunity to learn from a bad boss
Unknown
30. All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
31. Bad leaders take all the credits. But never take blame for the mistake.
Unknown
32. Having a bad boss isn’t your fault. Staying with one is.
Nora Denzel
33. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
James Humes
34. A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.
M.D. Arnold
35. Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
Seth Godin
36. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang
37. I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.
Edward Rickenbacker
38. I have met so-called leaders who showed fear in a moment when strength was required, and they give leadership a bad name.
Jason Taylor
39. No party is as bad as its leaders.
Will Rogers
40. The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
Bill O’Reilly
41. A leader’s job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers’ sense of commitment.
Dean Smith
42. We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
David Frum
43. Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
Simon Sinek
44. Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.
Rocky Anderson
45. I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices … and recover quickly from their bad choices.
David Cottrell
46. Good leaders sacrifice for others to survive; bad leaders sacrifice others to survive.
Saji Ijiyemi
47. Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
Janos Kadar
48. Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
Colin Myles
49. One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.
J. Loren Norris
50. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi
51. “Leadership is not about you. It’s about investing in the growth of others.”
Ken Blanchard
52. “First get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.”
Jim Collins
53. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.”
Simon Sinek
54. “Nothing will kill a great employee faster than watching you tolerate a bad one.”
Perry Belcher
55. “Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. It’s why the whole world is falling apart.”
Suzy Kassem
56. “The biggest concern of an organization should be when their most passionate people become quiet.”
Tim McClure
57. “Overconfidence was risky in such a hostile environment, a mistake most often made by warriors who had never truly been tested.”
Jocko Willink
58. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”
Stephen Covey
59. “Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”
Michael Bassey Johnson
60. “Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. It’s why the whole world is falling apart.”
Suzy Kassem
61. “Don’t let your ego get too close to your position so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.”
Colin Powell
62. “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”
Colin Powell
63. “Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
Lewis Grizzard
64. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John Maxwell
65. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
66. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
67. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”
68. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
69. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
70. “A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.”
71. The best way to deal with bad leadership is to develop your own good leadership skills and use them in your own life.
72. “Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.”
Mahatma Gandhi
73. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
74. “The way you behave when you think you can get away with it is who you really are.”
Carly Fiorina
75. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
76. “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
77. “It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.”
Charles Dickens
78. “An employee’s motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.”
Bob Nelson
79. “Bad leadership turns good employees into enemies.”
Unknown
80. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
Arnold H. Glasow
81. “Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.”
Mitt Romney
82. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
Henry Ward Beecher
83. “The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”
Simon Sinek
84. “Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.”
Andy Stanley
85. “A bad boss is like a disease of the soul.”
Chetan Bhagat
86. “You are not your resume, you are your work.”
Seth Godin
87. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”
Stephen Covey
88. “A leader is admired, a boss is feared.”
Vicente Del Bosque
89. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.”
Sam Walton
90. “The assumption of authority brings out the leader’s inner world.”
91. “Leadership cannot be done by the numbers.”
92. “Toxic environments are not the result of spontaneous bad fortune. They are the resultof toxic leaders.”
93. “Truth is an invaluable corporate asset. Don’t let it go waste. Embrace it.”
94. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
General Dwight Eisenhower
95. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.”
Ross Perot
96. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
John C. Maxwell
97. “Earn your leadership every day.”
Michael Jordan
98. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”
M.D. Arnold
99. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
100. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
John Buchan
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