Quotes About Accountability

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Pero, al mismo tiempo, cuando cada persona se siente al mando, aun a escala local o temporal, esa persona toma en serio su responsabilidad. Esa persona es "dueña" de su trabajo, o de una parte del parque o de la situación. Y eso la hace preocuparse y tomar en serio el bienestar del invitado. Así es exactamente como se sienten los integrantes del reparto.

Excuses tell me two things about a person; they aren't honest with themselves, or others, and they believe I can't see they are lying to both of us - Tom too tall Cunningham

It's easy (and fair) to blame lousy management on lousy managers. But it's not enough. It's also necessary to blame the people who allow themselves to be managed so badly.

Ownership of the standard should be in the hands of those who do the work.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

Each time you give trust in advance of demonstrated performance, you flirt with danger. If you're risk-averse, you won't do it. And that's a shame, because the most effective way to gain the trust and loyalty of those beneath you is to give the same in equal measure.

Police discipline certainly does occur; it just does not often lead to change.

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

But when an offensive sputters and looks out of synch, you can bet one of the defensive linemen is responsible.

There is no way I can go back and uncreate 8chan. If I could, I would, but there is no way to do that. So the main way I have dealt with the guilt is to go on the offensive.

I can have an off-night on the offensive end, but I should never have an off-night on defense.

Everybody wants to go out and play hard for a guy where they know if they give their all on the defensive end, they're going to get rewarded on the offensive end.

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

When you go to the mayor's office and you want something done, then that person should have the authority to do it for you. And if the person can't do it for you, then you should have the ability to hold that person responsible.

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.