Quotes About Accountability

The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government.

Being what we humans are, what else could we do but wrong?

That's the second time you've apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line.

That's the mark of a good office. The people who do the work get on with it without bothering to tell the boss.

You hold an eternal soul in your hands. You cannot afford to give in to weariness, indifference, laziness, or careless neglect. God chose you two as the parents of these children! It is now your responsibility to determine what level of understanding your child possesses and to hold him accountable at that level.

Everything a child experiences, either by way of indulgence or the self-restraint you impose, is preparing him for the day when he will mature into a responsible, moral soul. Somewhere on that road of development, each child will graduate to commence his full accountability. That child then stands alone before God, "without excuse." It becomes his day of accountability.

Parent, you can't blame your children if you have trained them to obey only after several warnings, threats, an ultimatum or two, and finally with a gesture of force. It's not their fault. It's yours.

FROM BIRTH, PARENTS MUST ASSUME CONTROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN. During the early years, we certainly do not want to destroy the child's natural drives, but we must constrain him to exercise temperance and self-control.

In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

But women please note: with great power, comes great responsibility. A responsibility to yourself, a responsibility to the world, a responsibility to your world—and everything you let in it. This

This is YOUR book. With it, comes the responsibility to be a better woman. Also a better friend, better daughter, better mother, better wife. Not everything will apply. What

RASSW published its first public position paper in February 1976 on the issue of licensure. Placing the issue in the broader context of the economic crisis, the paper addressed three questions: (1) the role of NASW; (2) whether licensing of social workers was racist; and (3) the relationship of licensure to service quality and accountability.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.' And another time, 'The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.

Every society gets the criminals it deserves" is her philosophy. "And the police force it's willing to pay for, rather than the one it insists upon.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

I am forgiving of a mistake, but I am not forgiving when it is repeated. It means you didn't learn from it

second point is how to think about the very concept of personal responsibility in a mechanistic and social world. It is a given that all network systems, social or mechanical, need accountability in order to work.

Every captain knew it was his job to deliver cargo as cheaply and as quickly as possible," one Great Lakes captain commented long after the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, "and if you didn't measure up, the company would replace you with a captain who would measure up.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

Hacía tiempo que Sophie había llegado a la conclusión de que a los adultos se les daba realmente mal inventar excusas creíbles