Quotes About Responsibility

Saying, 'I'll find the answer for you,' opens the door for people to still come to me with questions. Even if I don't have an immediate answer, I build trust by finding the answer.

Whether it's a car or boat or motorcycle, it's a dangerous item, so you have to show a level of competence and get a license before you're allowed to operate something that's dangerous. Guns are dangerous but you don't have to get a license to operate guns.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have great people at JPMorgan Chase. We operate with a lot of rigor. Our clients are happy with us.

At Unilever, we operate in 190 countries with two billion people using our products daily. We take climate seriously because we know that it impacts those two billion people - and that means it impacts us, too.

All business must have a social license to operate.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

You will be a far more effective whistleblower if you operate within a legal framework.

Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.

Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.

It's extremely depressing that a country of this magnitude, and where it thinks it lies in itself, can allow so many foodbanks to be operating in this country.

Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.

I had no sense of guilt. All during the course of the operation, I knew it was a job.

I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

I know at times I've been very guilty of being too honest at times or too opinionated at times and it costs you a nickel or two.

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of ant use to oneself.