Quotes About Responsibility

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.

I don't think it's fair to a family to uproot them simply because it's profitable for you to do so.

Im generally of the view that we should know the names of those who enacted and justified imperial power - but only if the glorifying can be supplemented with plaques that tell us the shameful histories of, for example active participation in the slave trade or highly successful and profitable lives extracted from slave plantations.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.

I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.

I actually am a capitalist, and I believe in shareholders. But I believe in them as a result of what I do, not as a reason for what I'm doing. The same with profits - profits alone cannot be an objective. It has to have a purpose.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

Growing up in a political family, I soon learned that what happens in our home, school, neighborhood and government has a profound effect on us all.

As a former CEO and senior executive, there was a time when I did not quite understand the profound impact a CEO has on the culture of a company, even though I always knew culture was important.

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.

Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.

When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples' careers.

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

TV needs to be the medium for progress, not degeneration. There needs to be more programming for children. Plays need to become more responsible.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.