Quotes About Accountability

We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.

Of course, authors can still burn their manuscripts - but once something is out in the world, especially if it ever saw the digital light of day, it's harder and harder to call it back.

I've never attempted or even tried or will ever throw anyone under the bus. That's just not me. I don't do that.

I'm the type of person, you know, I don't throw nobody under the bus for nothing.

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It's not good for that person because they're not succeeding in their role. And it's not good for the organization because it's just not working.

When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

The greatest obstacle to success is an excuse.

See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.

When you're not successful, people look at the driver and say, 'what's wrong with him?' and sometimes the drivers look back and wonder 'what makes you think you're not the problem?'

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process. Process drives culture, not the other way around, so you can't just change the culture, you have to change the system.

The role of a board of directors is to be a sounding board for the vision of the company - to hold executives accountable in executing that vision and to ensure a management succession plan is in place.