Quotes About Accountability

I'm the CEO; I'm the one who should be looking out for risk.

I couldn't possibly be any more open or public about my role as CEO at Patreon.

Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.

I think, when you are working in a public space, there needs to be a certain level of understanding that you need to have - that your life is out there for the world to see. So, you have got to deal with it, to the best of your abilities.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

You need to walk the talk, because you can't expect your organization to behave a certain way that you're not willing to behave.

I'm certainly not above the law.

I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

I'm aware of the fact that people that are watching to see what I do next - It's challenging to make the best decisions, and I don't always get it right.

It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.

Every single player has to take responsibility for what they do. Look at the Manchester United team that won the Champions League in 2008, they didn't have a 'leader' like Roy Keane any more.

It's normal to win the championship. It's Manchester United. We don't have the right to make mistakes.

I don't think everyone should get a second chance.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

When you are on the field, you know exactly what is happening out there. You are in charge. You have to make the right choices. No one can decide for you.

I am a big believer in taking responsibility for your actions. I tell my kids every day to 'own it' - 'it' being whatever they've said or done. At some point in your life, you are in charge. You call the shots. You decide to eat or not eat.

I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.

When I'm in charge, you will never have to question whether anyone is listening, whether the mayor even wants the job. You will never have to ask yourself whether you matter. You will never have to wonder whether I'm in Iowa.

If you're the president of a charity, you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for yourself. And you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for your business.

In MMA, you can literally cheat over and over again, and it's OK. The media will back you.

I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.

Cheating is one thing - it's not OK - but at least if you cheat and you come out and you get caught and you're like, 'Look, I did this and it wasn't right. This is why I did it. I'm not going to do it again, I learned my lesson.'

If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.