Quotes about Inexperienced Leadership

Malcolm Muggeridge

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

George Bernard Shaw

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

Tim Kaine

I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has appointed a national security adviser, Mike Flynn, who is a pro-Russia conspiracy theorist, and he's just put Steve Bannon, a guy with connections to white supremacy and antisemitism, onto the National Security Council.

William Shakespeare

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

Jacques Benigne Bossuet

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

Kurt Vonnegut

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

Bush’s administration was notorious for appointing wealthy young people who were ideologically consonant with Bush and not very experienced or competent themselves. Most of them were not very intellectual or well-read or well trained and had few of any accomplishments. From FEMA to the occupation of Iraq, there were massive failures of management and administrative competence and this hurt the reputation of the administration as much as Bush’s poor policy decision. See {624062} for an example.

Kenneth C. Griffin

Walk across any of the trading floors - they are full of 29-year-old kids. The capital markets of America are controlled by a bunch of right-out-of-business-school young guys who haven't really seen that much.

Pete Buttigieg

The old line of thought used to be that local government is the bush leagues.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch.

Atul Gawande

There are times when you have sharp elbows, and people are trying to muscle you out of certain meetings - because then people could leak to the press that you had a role in certain decisions. I, at twenty-six, was very impatient and didn't know how to keep my powder dry. I was running a team of seventy-five people when I had never been a boss. I was the worst boss ever.

Yaroslav Trofimov

If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.

Inexperienced Leadership Quotes