Pooja Bhatt Quotes

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devilishly hard

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

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.

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone.

Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.

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.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

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

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.