Quotes About Accountability

Go and wake up your cook.

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

As you make your bed you must lie in it.

Am I my brother's keeper?

There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.

Owe no man anything.

History is a stern judge.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.