Quotes About Delegation

I had to learn how to not be a micro-manager. Maternity leave made me do that. I just couldn't anymore.

I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help.

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.

That's a strong sign of a good coach, to let an assistant participate. It shows his confidence in the coach's ability not to have to dominate everything.

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

I never shop - my wife takes care of all of that.

It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

If General McClellan did not want to use the army, he would like to borrow it.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The nation-king cannot exercise its sovereignty itself; it is obliged to delegate it to agents: this is constantly reiterated by those who seek to win its favor. Be these agents five, ten, one hundred, or a thousand, of what consequence is the number; and what matters the name? It is always the government of man, the rule of will and caprice. I ask what this pretended revolution has revolutionized?

God is everywhere, except where he has a delegate.

I'm have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation.

If I spend all of my day in the details as a CEO of a company like Wal-Mart, I think it would be trouble, because I wouldn't really be prepared to speak to the big issues that the country or the world should face.

I am a bit of a boss, even when it's about the composting. This goes here! This goes there! Don't do that! Maybe for the sake of others, I should let go a bit.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.