Quotes About Accountability

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence. Managers who want better performance must provide what their staff needs.

No matter how many golden lectures a leader gives imploring people to "Be collaborative" or "Work as a team," if the people hired have destructive habits, the lecture will lose.

It's a great bullshit test of any boss who says, "X is important." If she doesn't match that statement with resources, she's incompetent, insincere, or both.

One side effect of having teams is there will always be things that fall through the cracks. Teams create territories.

The absence of dedicated quality assurance people made every employee accountable for quality, which is rare if there are many QA people around.

When I talked with God about the stuff I faced, first on the list was the face I stuffed.

Anything that will keep you from your own ability to be successful is sabotage—procrastinating, drinking too much, not eating healthfully, showing up late, phoning it in, even just ignoring the instruction of your coach (or boss or teacher). This is all self-sabotage. When will you stop making decisions that are bad for you? When you decide you're ready to win.

I think Whites are in a similar spot. It doesn't matter whether we personally participated in segregation, protested against it, or weren't even born when it happened. We can't wash our hands of it just because we aren't responsible. We should take responsibility. Why? There's an old common law formula: Qui sentit commodum, sentire debet et onus. It means: He who enjoys the benefit ought also to bear the burden.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

But that's precisely what you're doing. Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it's because you put some money on the counter, not because the gods transported a pair of lips to your cock." "That's Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a really incredible metaphor, Jean, but I think I could use some help translating it.

What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep?

That's that. Put it in your hat and wear it to town, Locke. We need to face our shortcomings head on. The old saying for a gang is, ''Lies go out, but the truth stays home''.

All we had to do was complete the same two statements Michael had hanging in his office in his declaration: I declare that I am … and You can count on me to … Simple? Sure. But far from easy. Do it right, and you will find yourself digging deep inside.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.

You listen to me. You try to tell her that she failed that man... And you're not welcome here anymore.

Choices have consequences.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they've been used a couple of times.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services ' it's actually a 'false choice.'

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Confessed faults are half mended.

Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless. Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, "He won't call me to account"? But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless. (Ps. 10:12–14 NIV)

But every now and then, just weighing in is what it must come down to, and without any self-exculpation or self-pity.

You can't just pluck your honour off a bush You didn't plant.