Error Admission Quotes

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

I think that the direct conversation is exactly what companies need to earn trust of customers. Admit an error. Fix a problem. Commit to doing better. That is only human.

Well, a general danger of punditry is that there's very little incentive to change your position or admit error. If you reverse your position, the people who backed you before will be unhappy, but a lot of the people who now agree with you will still pillory you.

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

There have been a lot of mistakes made in this campaign. I know because I've made most of them.

In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last two years. The president's exact quote was: 'I ain't make none mistakes ever.'

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

I think it takes a lot for you to admit you made a mistake and correct it right away, especially on live television.

I have always addressed any mistakes I have made and will keep doing so. It's nothing I duck away from.

I don't like to hide the errors I make. Any time I'm doing a mistake, I'm just saying it.

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.

Above all else, protect your brand. If you or your company doesn't live up to your brand's promise, own up to your error.

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

If you make a mistake, then you should own that mistake.

I would like to admit the clear error I made in front of all Spanish citizens

Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.

Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.