Browsing Topic Best Bad News Quotes

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.

When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that’s very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone – bad news rolls off it.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

It is funny, I don’t feel old enough to give advice… But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that’s the only way you’re going to improve.

If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you’ve broken the news, so that you’re forced to be there when someone’s life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn’t bother them – such people are not to be trusted.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news… a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don’t act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha.The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that’s who She thinks we all are.

I quit because I’m so tired of hearing bad news about cigarettes… Even if they discover good news, they don’t publicize it – like the fact that smoking seriously reduces the risk of jogging.

We’d already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn’t been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we’re not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That’s very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.

When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy will become. So I no longer dread it. Instead, I enjoy the game of finding the very best way to deal with it, and take great satisfaction in having a hand in resolving the issues that come my way.

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he’s really pissed off.

Let me give you really bad news, and I’m sure people will demonize me for saying this: the rich are always gonna be with us. They will always be with us. There are rich people in Cuba. There are rich people in Venezuela. You pick the policies, and the rich are gonna figure it out. They’re always gonna be rich.

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That’s the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling ‘Santorum.’

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

There was no sign of Jules. Bad news, said Elliot. The man is sick. You’re going to have to settle for me. Sick? Vee demanded. How sick? What kind of excuse is sick? Sick as in it’s coming out both ends. Vee scrunched her nose. Too much information.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was – by the public.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

I set a rule that people weren’t allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because … bad news is generally more actionable than good news.

Convert bad news to good news.