Quotes About Accountability

Nicocles, as early as the fourth century B.C., asserts that doctors claimed responsibility for success and blamed failure on nature, or on some external cause. The

by creating bureaucracies, we put civil servants in a position to make decisions based on abstract and theoretical matters, with the illusion that they will be making them in a rational, accountable way.

If you see a fraud and don't say fraud, you are a fraud.

Verba volent, words fly. Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times. This is the product of modernism and division of tasks. Recall that I said that America's

A system with skin-in-the-game requirements holds together through the notion of a sacrifice in order to protect the collective or entities higher in the hierarchy that are required to survive.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

fragility and absence of skin in the game.

And many of the problems of society come from the argument "other people are doing it.

We also saw the solution in forcing skin in the game.

how they use public office as a means to satisfy personal greed.

La burocracia es una estructura mediante la cual una persona es convenientemente separada de las consecuencias de sus actos.

But top management is only paid on result—no matter the process.

2. No socialization of losses and privatization of gains.

He paid no price for the mistake.

There is no penalty for opinion makers who harm society.

blame his successor for subsequent results.

First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

Actions are symmetric, do not allow cherry-picking, remove the free option.

blindness to fragility, selective memory, and absence of skin in the game.

establishing the principle that you need to eat what you feed others.

while the lives saved by the drug might not be accounted for anywhere.

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung

those who don't take risks should never be involved in making decisions.