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Quotes About Accountability

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.
~ Vernon Jordan
Self Government won't work without self discipline.
~ Paul Harvey
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
~ Tacitus
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
~ Peter Drucker
The person who works harder when the boss isn't around is headed straight for a better job.
~ Napoleon Hill
I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust.
~ Kenneth C. Frazier
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
~ Jim Carrey
If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.
~ Terrence Howard
It's only work if somebody makes you do it.
~ Bill Watterson
That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
~ Eddie Vedder
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.
~ Scott Walker
I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.
~ Miguel Cabrera
You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me.
~ Donald Trump
Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
~ Nathaniel Branden
The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."
~ Byron Katie
Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.
~ Charles Stanley
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
~ Harry Browne
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it's that self-regulation doesn't work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.
~ James Surowiecki
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.
~ Jerome Kerviel
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
~ Bernie Mac
In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
~ Yehuda Berg
The only thing I can do is be right about what I say. Because I know I'm being watched. I understand what I'm facing. All I can do is put the work behind it.
~ Bernard Hopkins