Quotes About Accountability

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty

I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

que somos nosotros los culpables y que no es culpa nuestra que seamos culpables y que somos culpables por ese mismo hecho y que estamos hartos con ello lo sabemos

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

On love I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

Government just cannot govern well without reliable independent reporting and criticism. No intelligence system, no bureaucracy, can offer the information provided by free competitive reporting; the cleverest agents of the secret police state are inferior to the plodding reporter of the democracy.

Author Edward Johnson neatly labels such cop-outs as the pussyfooting passive.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

I am against government by crony.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Wrong behavior carries with it the seeds of its own retribution.

Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good... what account have I to give for my long years?

But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?

They that cannot govern themselves cannot govern others (Pg. 238).

O, ye who take freedom from man, with what words shall ye answer it to God?

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

We begin to use our anger as a vehicle for change when we are able to share our reactions without holding the other person responsible for causing our feelings, and without blaming ourselves for the reactions that other people have in response to our choices and actions. We are responsible for our own behavior.

Keep the lines of communication open in the family without inviting others to blame or take sides in your battles. It's

how we may be too responsible for another person and, at the same time, not responsible enough for our own behavior.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.