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Responsibility

  • "Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong."
    Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British prime minister
    Source: Party political broadcast, London (August 26, 1950)
  • "It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him."
    Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966), US president of General Motors
    Source: “Modern Ideas of the Big Business World,” Work (October 1926)
  • "The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
    Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian author and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature
    Source: Nobel lecture (1970)
  • "I don’t know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."
    Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), US president
    Said on succeeding Franklin D. Roosevelt as president.
    Source: Attributed (April 1944)
  • "The buck stops here."
    Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), US president
    Sign on his desk while president.
    Source: Quoted in Presidential Anecdotes (Paul F. Boiler, 1981)
  • "There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to the same thing. Deny your responsibility."
    Nancy Peretsman (1955–), US investment banker
    Source: Speech (September 1967)
  • "We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible."
    Allan Massie (1938–), British author
    Source: “Etienne,” A Question of Loyalties (1989), pt. 3, ch. 22
  • "Whatever you blame, that you have done yourself."
    Georg Groddeck (1866–1934), German psychoanalyst
    Source: The Book of the It (1923), Letter 14
  • "Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head."
    Alvin Toffler (1928–), US social commentator
    Source: “Breaking with Bureaucracy,” Across the Board (February 1991)
  • "People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals."
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet and playwright
    Source: Quoted in Edward Marsh, Patron of the Arts (Christopher Hassall, 1959), ch. 6
  • "Responsibility is the great developer of men."
    Mary Parker Follett (1868–1933), US management thinker and author
    Source: Dynamic Administration (1941)
  • "Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
    Nadine Gordimer (1923–), South African novelist and short-story writer
    Source: “Lecture, University of Michigan,” The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (Sterling M. McMurrin, ed, 1985)
  • "Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it."
    Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990), US publisher
    Source: Attributed

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