Quotes About Accountability

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.

Work hard. Someone's always watching.

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

My best advice is to work out with a buddy. They keep you motivated and get you out of bed.

You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.