Roberto Mancini Quotes

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!

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.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

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

If officials on the spot commit in good faith an error of judgment, which is worse—to support them or to throw them over?

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

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

You've got to live and die by your decisions.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

If we want better results, we have to make better choices.

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.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.