Famous Quotes & Sayings

King Edward VIII

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

Millicent Fenwick

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

Milo Ventimiglia

I don't like to have to depend on someone else to reset the props. It's like, "No, you've gotta take responsibility for it." I know how things fit and feel. To reset that stuff myself, it's easy. The prop guys are hilarious because I'll have one set of gloves and I'll keep reusing them to get the most out of it. They're like, "We've got boxes of these."

Milton Friedman

The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Milton Friedman

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.

Milton Friedman

There is only one social responsibility of business

Milton Friedman

So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.

Milton Friedman

The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits

Mike Singletary

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

Karen Traviss

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

Julian Baggini

Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.

Julian Barnes

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

Debbie Ford

Congruence, integration, responsibility and integrity are the values that I stand for.

Tyra Banks

take responsibility for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you

Stick with us through the year. We do feel very much a responsibility not to give short shrift to the abuses of polygamy.

They can spend more time on every property. Secondly, they will be more versed and knowledgeable about those parcels they have responsibility for.

Janet Reno

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

It's frustrating. But we sign it, and we take responsibility for it.

It's our responsibility to support them and what they do.

It's our responsibility for us to get a win for us, for this program.

Eugene Levy

You take more responsibility for the movie, and the movie kind of sits on your shoulders. I split that responsibility with Sam.

Rob Morrow

I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.

Jonathan Tisch

I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others.

Barbara Boxer

I have not been silent. I said he was wrong and I still think he was wrong. He was right to take responsibility for his actions, and he was wrong,

Jamal Crawford

We just had to slow down. As a guard, I'll take responsibility for that.

They have co-responsibility for why so many of us are here.

Jeff Sessions

The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.

James Hunter

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

James Howard Kunstler

On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

James Redfield

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

Laurence Sterne

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely.

Laura Dern

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.