Quotes About Accountability

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

The most important thing to me is facing people head on and focusing on not disappointing the public.

We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.

I have always joked that I have three mothers. I couldn't get away with anything as a kid. Whether I got a bad mark or was told off, it would always end up getting back to my parents.

If you can't motivate yourself to get up and play in front of 30,000-40,000 people, then you're not in the right job.

It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.

Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.

I'm highly critical of myself. There's not something someone else might say that makes me feel I need to be motivated in a different way. I'm a self-motivated guy.

When you are working with a highly professional, motivated group that is accountable, the more freedom you give that group, the more discipline you're going to get in return.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

At the end of the day, no one is going to care about your company as much as you do. That is a motto that you will live or die by. And if you don't believe that, just take your eye off the ball for a day and watch what happens.

Liberals take positions that make them look good and feel good — and show very little interest in the actual consequences for others, even when liberal policies are leaving havoc in their wake.

Have we reached the ultimate state of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves

the question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.

Each thinks that their inertia will do no harm, and that it is someone else's responsibility rather than theirs to make some provision for their future: the result is that with all individually sharing this same notion they fail as a body to see their common interest going to ruin.

It may be satisfying to castigate the likes of Geithner and the heads of Lehman Brothers and AIG, but safety experts like Perrow know it is far more productive to design better systems than to hope for better people.

It's my job to run the division, and it's your job to critique me.' Petraeus

As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?