Lee Scott Quotes

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen.

I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.

Someone who will take responsibility for the real welfare of the American people, to be honest with them. I'd like to have that adult in the room.

I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.

I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility.

I think that the direct conversation is exactly what companies need to earn trust of customers. Admit an error. Fix a problem. Commit to doing better. That is only human.

We have that responsibility to look out for those who haven't had the road and the success that we have.

All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

We would have to give out something for the poor in India. It is my responsibility to give the people an account of every rupee. I will use it at right places. I won't let it get stolen.

I'm just a swell guy. No, that's a ridiculous notion - if you're being an asshole to people, you're being an asshole, that's all there is to it. It can't be rationalized because you wrote something worthwhile. First obligation is to other people.

Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

There is only one social responsibility of business

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

As a top manager, you have to not just reward truth-telling, you've got to beg for it, and you've got to demand that everyone around you gives you constructive criticism, constantly. You've got to get out of the bubble, so that you can get direct feedback from everybody who's being affected.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.