Frank Rijkaard Quotes

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

If heads don’t roll, nobody makes any changes

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

It takes time for people to understand how to hold leaders accountable.

I fully support accountability and transparency.

I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

We measure everything - why not governance?

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

In a democracy, power implies responsibility.

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

My responsibilities as the governor are more than my neighbor’s and my family.

In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.

I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.

We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.

We've done all the work that needs to be done on the inside to make sure there's no malfeasance inside Chrysler.