Quotes About Accountability

That's the problem you face when you deal with Arbiters. We don't answer to anyone. We could arrest you, throw you in a cell, and you'd languish there until we remembered to ask you those questions we'd been meaning to.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Every man shall bear his own burden.

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

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.