Bob Anderson Quotes

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Whoever can, should.

When the public or the Council pass the buck up to me I am going to act.

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

America wasn't made on blame; it was made on responsibility. Take off the training wheels in life and decide to take responsibility for your actions.

It's one of the things, certainly for me, anyway: I'm learning to take a bigger role in the things that I'm associated with.

I want all the mistakes to be mine, and I want to take responsibility for everything even if I fail. Whatever the project is, I need to have the final say.

You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.

I don't really want followers, to be honest; that's what Twitter is for. I want people who can make their own decisions and look after their own departments.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.