Quotes About Accountability

Kaminski plunged ahead. "I am not going to sign off on anything related to the Raptors," he said. "And I don't care if I'm fired for it." Buy raised a hand. "Whoa, wait a minute, I don't think you'll be fired," he replied quickly. "Now that Skilling's gone, we have a different mantra in Enron." He looked Kaminski in the eye. "We're expected to be honest", he said. p.525

Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end.

If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end.

Public service is a tautology. It defines itself. It means to serve the public. Not yourself. It doesn't mean that you become enriched or have your name emblazoned on headlines. There are two words to describe the mission of politics: do it. Don't talk about it. Do it.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

bureaucracy is trouble everybody has. It's a system evolved so that nobody in it is ever responsible for anything.

We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we aren't allowed and that someone can back it up. -Jacky Faber

And it's not the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone, Which gives you the bitter heartache, At the setting of the sun. ADELAIDE PROCTOR

I do believe in shooting the messenger. You know why? Because it sends a message.

They understand NOW," agreed Charles pointedly. "But what happens in a little while when the effects wear off and they remember everything except the reasons why they did it? They're going to be telling their parents they gave their car away to some kids who made them smell a leaf. And what do they say then?

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

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

It is really quite extraordinary that some people should speak to us of tyranny in the present Party: tyranny of bosses, tyranny of elected parliamentary deputies. I don't know what means the deputies employ today to exercise their tyranny, but at least you know who they are, and you can take their means away from them. From where will you take them tomorrow? From anonymities, from unknown persons, from masks.

In the hospital, there also was a man trying to look as if he had been wounded. I asked him what was the matter, and he said he just couldn't take it. I gave him the devil, slapped his face with my gloves and kicked him out of the hospital. Companies should deal with such men, and if they shirk their duty they should be tried for cowardice and shot. I will issue an order on this subject tomorrow.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.

No es posible ayudar a las personas haciendo por ellas lo que ellas deberían hacer por sí mismas. Abraham Lincoln

It's about showing these kids that there are serious consequences for their actions.

Days are not far when we will see LOCK on brokerage firms offices as we are seeing dwindling business or almost closure at Mutual Fund Or SIP companies for ruthlessly cheating their clients only

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How does it feel living life every day with such attractive faces in a place where women are forced to take responsibility even for the worst outcomes that spring from other people's lusts?

I know something about responsibility. Just don't ask me about politics.

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad -- don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen -- right?