Responsible
Definition: Having an obligation to do something, or having control over or care for someone, as part of one's job or role.
Number of Quotes: 23
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Adams
I have never compared myself to my managers ... although I have made some big financial decisions
on my own and decided on new investments, I have never involved myself in managerial decisions.
Gianni Agnelli
This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be
done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but
Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it.
Nobody realized Everybody wouldn't do it. In the end, Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody.
Financial Times
Anonymous
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
Jeb Bush
Each man the architect of his own fate.
Appius Claudius Caecus
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I
wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
Katherine Dunn
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that
goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
George Eliot
If we all were judged according to the consequences
Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention
And beyond our limited understanding
Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
T. S. Eliot
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
Edna Gladney
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not
recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words to action.
Theodore Levitt
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie
I would have been a success in anything. But I have chosen an activity that was socially useful and that aspect gives me extra satisfaction.
Robert Maxwell
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving
up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
Melissa Mayer
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own-even more,
one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Katherine Anne Porter
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives
and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means
that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.
Tom Stoppard
For Man is man and master of his fate.
Alfred Tennyson
Business doesn't have to choose between making profit and protecting the environment, between economic success and ethical responsibility, between
satisfying the customer and meeting the demands of other stakeholders. In other words, we don't have to make a choice between profits and principles.
Jeroen van der Veer
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