Matt Mullenweg Quotes

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

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

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.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

You've got to take responsibility for your actions.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

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.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Only the mistakes were mine.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

Sometimes the choices you make are good and other times it goes the other way. I take full responsibility as coach.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

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.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.