Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Making excuses is not my profile or that of Madrid.

I learned a long time ago that no one wants to hear excuses.

We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.

It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.

I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

I don't apologize.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

I have a no-apology policy.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

As a soldier, I know that the commander is responsible for every man and every thing. The words "I apologize" may sound banal. But I cannot find any other words.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble ... deny your responsibility.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.