Terry Goodkind Quotes

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

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

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.

I hold head coaches accountable.

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

[Martin] Van Buren says he considers it as a misfortune when any office to be filled by him becomes vacant, and thinks patronage rather a burden than a benefit.

Those of us who are in leadership positions from the South have a special responsibility for civil rights.

I am a combat leader. As such I am responsible for everything that is done in my unit. I just wish that our civilian leaders would accept the same kind of responsibility.

The first general duty of princes is carefully to inform themselves of every thing, that falls under the complete discharge of their trust; for a person cannot well acquit himself in that, which he has not first rightly learnt.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

Most people in an organization try very hard to do what the leadership wants them to do. That places a tremendous responsibility on leaders.

When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move … When the leader talks, people listen. When the leader acts, people watch. So you have to be careful about everything you say and everything you do

When you win, you are at the top, and when you lose, you are a stupid manager.

When you get the armband, everyone looks to you to lead, and when things go wrong, then you get criticised the most, and I need to take that on the chin.

When everything goes well, they say good things about the manager and when something is wrong it is normal as well the manager gets pressure.

As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.

A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.

When you leave people behind, and those people who are left behind, it's not their fault, it's the leaders of the institutions. There's always going to be an elite. You can have an elite in a communist society. It is the leaders, something went wrong, and the leaders collectively are responsible.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

Realizing your potential as a leader is your responsibility.

Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.