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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Approximate author period: c. 1929 AD · modern

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Approximate author period: c. 1929 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1890 to 1969; Wikidata Q9916, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9916 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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