Quotes About Accountability

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.

Dr. Sadler opened up the drawers of his desk. All empty—except for supplies. "Tell me," said the patient, "where do you keep your unfinished business?" "Finished!" said Sadler. "And where do you keep your unanswered mail?" "Answered!" Sadler told him. "My rule is never to lay down a letter until I have answered it. I

If you're wrong, admit it!

wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We

El ejecutivo que me dice que no puede recordar nombres, me está diciendo que no puede recordar una parte importante de su trabajo, y está operando sobre arenas movedizas. Karen

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.

the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.

The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him

W)hen you're playing with fire you've got to deal with the heat...And fire ain't particular about who it burns.

If something isn't right, you can't just ignore it and say you'll fix it later," he said. "That's what other companies do.

But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.

of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any

If he was displeased, he might scream and get hopping mad and use expletives, but he wouldn't do it in a way that would totally destroy the person he was talking to. It was just his way to get the person to do a better job.

I've learned over the years that when you have really good people you don't have to baby them," Jobs later explained. "By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things.

Who said your job was to think, spring-wiener?

Stop the train, this isn't going to work," he told Woolard. "This company is in shambles, and I don't have time to wet-nurse the board. So I need all of you to resign. Or else I'm going to resign and not come back on Monday.

At a meeting early in his tenure, Cook was told of a problem with one of Apple's Chinese suppliers. "This is really bad," he said. "Someone should be in China driving this.

Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing, its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering enough chips on time, Jobs stormed into a meeting and started shouting that they were fucking dickless assholes. The company ended up getting the chips to Apple on time, and its executives made jackets that boasted on the back, Team FDA.

to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out." He didn't seek any control over what I wrote, or even ask to read it in advance. His only involvement came when my publisher was choosing the cover

The dark side of our new information technology is not that it allows government repression of free speech but just the opposite: it permits anyone to spread, with little risk of being held accountable, any idea, conspiracy, lie, hatred, scam, or scheme, with the result that societies become less civil and governable.

And the Scripture assures me that at the last day we shall not be examined by what we thought, but what we did . .