Rudy Giuliani Quotes

I want all the mistakes to be mine, and I want to take responsibility for everything even if I fail. Whatever the project is, I need to have the final say.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

When the public or the Council pass the buck up to me I am going to act.

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

When placed in command, take charge.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

I say this all the time: Everyone can make a conscious choice to be a leader.

If you can't control these rumheads when you're their candidate, how the hell do you expect to control them if you become President?