Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz Singer
"I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing."
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Wrong Things
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well."
Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens."
Morrie Schwartz
Professor, Author
"We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives."
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"So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere."
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"I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment."
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"Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things."
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"Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing."
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"It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing."
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"I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing."
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"You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business."
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"Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news."
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