Accountability Culture Quotes

To err is human. To blame somebody else is politics.

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

I really believe, if I learned anything in the military, it was that I was accountable for my actions and I like to be part of the team that kind of brings that back to Washington, D.C. - not just responsibility, but accountability and being ready to lose my job over doing what's right.

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

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough.

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.

I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it irritating that we have a culture where people are more interested in trivial gossip than substantive matters.

Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

The most dangerous aspect of contemporary life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility.

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.

When you make a mistake, you have to admit it.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.