Scary nonprofit quotes

In honor of Halloween 2021, here are the the scariest things I’ve heard from nonprofit leaders.  These are paraphrases as I wasn’t writing them down at the time.  If you read one of these and don’t think they’re scary, let me know and we can discuss. 

1. I don’t have time to plan.  I’m just too busy.
2. I don’t want an engaged board of directors.  They’ll just get in my way as Executive Director.
3. I sent an email to my board asking for someone to volunteer for a task and nobody responded.  I guess they don’t care.
4. I’ll be so glad when we get our Development Director hired and I can cut back on most of my time fundraising.
5. “I hate hitting up people for money,” said by a Development Director.
6. Not really something said, but I had lunch with a new Development Director.  It was a get acquainted meeting.  They talked about themself the whole time and didn’t ask me a single question.
7. My staff’s pretty mediocre, but I’ve just come to accept that’s the way it is.
8. I don’t care what the data says, I know it’s true.
9. “It’s not that I don’t want coalition partners, it’s just that I think the other organizations who’re doing similar work just keep making stupid decisions.”  (Pretty sure that one’s an exact quote).
10. Nonprofit leader: “I was really upset with the decision we made to X.” 
    
    Me: “But you didn’t say anything during the meeting!” I replied.  ‘If you disagreed with the potential decision, why didn’t you speak up?”
    
    “I didn’t want to make anyone upset,” he replied.

Have you heard any of these before? Something else scary to share?