Quotes About Accountability

What are we that we can make such great blunders without the slightest realization of what we are doing? What is man that he is so mindful of himself and knows so little of the consequences of what he does!

Many people shared the view expressed by the diarist Samuel Pepys 'that he that doth get a wench with child and marries her afterward, it is as if a man should shit in his hat and then clap it upon his head'.2

The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.

Do what you think is right and apologize later.

And a month later all these guys are going 'I don't know why I don't feel very good', and I'm going 'You wanna know why you don't feel very good? I'll tell you why—because you've done nothing else for weeks but lie on the floor and smoke and take my money'. I was making 50 dollars a week cleaning for the guy who did our albums.

But in any society, leaders who aren't willing to make sacrifices aren't leaders, they're opportunists, and opportunists rarely have the common good in mind. They're easy to spot, though: opportunists lie reflexively, blame others for failures, and are unapologetic cowards.

Self-serving leaders can literally get people killed. But in any society, leaders who aren't willing to make sacrifices aren't leaders, they're opportunists, and opportunists rarely have the common good in mind. They're easy to spot, though: opportunists live reflexively, blame others for failure, and are unapologetic cowards.

The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing.

Subsistence-level hunters aren't necessarily more moral than other people; they just can't get away with selfish behavior because they live in small groups where almost everything is open to scrutiny.

Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on.

How was your day? If your answer was fine, then I don't think you were leading.

Leadership isn't something that people hand to you. ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them. If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.

Pick me, pick me" acknowledges the power of the system and passes responsibility to someone else to initiate. Even better, "pick me, pick me" moves the blame from you to them. If you don't get picked, it's their fault, not yours. If you do get picked, well, they said you were good, right? Not your fault anymore. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

The first step is write down the due date. Post it on the wall. It's real. You will ship on this date, done or not.

El cambio no se realiza pidiendo permiso. El cambio se hace pidiendo disculpas después.

Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable. The

There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do

No, the real reason is this: Meetings are a great place to hide. Meetings are where we go to wait for someone else to take responsibility. Meetings are a safe haven, a refuge from what might happen.

I'm not in charge of you, and I'm not manipulating you. I'm simply establishing the conditions for you to get to where you said you wanted to go. You tell me where you're going and what you need. You make promises about your commitment and skills development. I'll show up to illuminate, question, answer, spar with, and challenge you. I'll work tirelessly to make sure you're part of a team of people who are ready to care as much as you do.

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.