Quotes About Accountability

If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. You are where you are right now financially as a sum total of the decisions you've made to this point.

When leadership sets the goals by themselves they are not goals, they are quotas. And no one likes quotas.

The accountability of a group environment causes people to change their behaviors.

Parents who let teens run around with unearned adult freedoms are naive and stupid.

The first thing to remember is that it's not about you, it's about them. If an employee can't do the job, then they have to go. The last thing you want is employees who are holding your business back or who are demoralizing their coworkers. Your credibility depends on getting rid of such people as soon as possible.

There is no person in the firm who is really charged with protecting the brand equity. Those nominally in charge of the brand,perhaps termed brand managers or product marketing managers, are in fact evaluated on the basis of short-term measures.

You will never receive healing for your damaged emotions until you stop blaming everyone else and accept your responsibility. 3. Ask yourself if you want to be healed. This is what Jesus asked the sick man who had lain ill for thirty-eight years (see John 5:6). Do you really want to be healed, or do you just want to talk about your problem? Do

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is you're stupid and make bad choices.

You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from an animal. In the quiet afterward we know when we've done wrong.

blaming the Republicans for everything, Republicans are blaming the Democrats and nobody seems to want to take responsibility for anything.

Was it not Jean-Paul Sartre who said, 'Man is condemned to be free! Because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does!

Local government is where the rubber hits the road. While state legislators and members of Congress are more remote, local officials are present and visible. They are the first responders of politics.

Whenever someone tells me she is a procrastinator, I respond by asking them, "Did you eat this week?" Of course, the person will always answer yes. The fact is, no one procrastinates all the time. What you may be is a selective procrastinator -- which means that if something is important enough (like eating), you are perfectly capable of taking care of it right away.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

In fact the entire political leadership should face the death penalty under U.S. law for these actions. They're all eligible for the death penalty, according to the War Crimes Act passed by the 1996 Republican congress.

There are consequences for everything we do in life.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

When my daughers, Simone and Emily look at me 25 or 30 years from now and say 'what were you doing, when global warming was happening? And when you guys knew what was coming down the road?' I want to be able to say, 'guys, I was doing everything I knew how to do.

What is a law, if those who make it Become the forwardest to break it?

A rife platoon's] members must care for one another. Its leaders must cherish the men in very fire team and squad. For a rifleman, a leader's misjudgment, ignorance or inexperience can be fatal - no second chances. No rerunning the exercise until you get it right. When the word 'go' is given, there is no turning back from the consequences. It is the monstrous burden of command..." -Bernard "Mick" Trainor

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Be careful of your word, even in keeping the most trifling appointment. But do not blame another for a failure of that kind till you have heard his excuse.

to duck responsibility. He or she might say this: The policy will be implemented … The leader, on the other hand, would say this: Let's do it!