Quotes about Accountability
To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision."‡
— Jason Fried
Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.
— Jason Fried
One of the worst ways is the non-apology apology, which sounds like an apology but doesn't really accept any blame. For example, "We're sorry if this upset you." Or "I'm sorry that you don't feel we lived up to your expectations." Whatever.
— Jason Fried
When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure.
— Jason Fried
With a small team, you need people who are going to do work, not delegate work. Everyone's got to be producing. No one can be above the work.
— Jason Fried
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
— Edmund Burke
A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement
— Edmund Burke
There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.
— Edmund Burke
The desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.
— Edward Welch
Here is a community goal: to be able to identify one pattern of sin in our lives.
— Edward Welch
If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?
— Edward Welch
Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.
— Albert Bandura