Quotes About Accountability

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

There is only one social responsibility of business

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.