Adam Carolla Quotes

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

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

I'm a very hands-on person; I don't just want to give my name to something and not be a big part of it.

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.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Now the power is in your hands!

Your report! 'Tis my report. It is no report at all until I have accepted it.

Some call it power; I prefer to call it responsibility.

You see this palace is now yours, and the city is in your power; what do you think ought to be done?

Manage what belongs to you, but not what belongs to others.

You can't count on things happening if you're not in control of them happening.

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it.