Quotes About Delegation

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Georges, never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

the maxim, 'If you want a thing done safely, do not do it yourself!

You need the management personnel who can help you out with various things. The captain can't be asked to get into every decision.

I don't know why the word 'solopreneur' is in our lexicon. Nobody can physically do it all by themselves, and more importantly, why would they want to? Being the sales team, the HR department, management, and production all by yourself is terrible. Period.

the single most important task in management is to pick good deputies,

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.

The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes—picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and conducting operations.

In fact, to be successful as a first-time manager requires a major transition for which many people are not adequately prepared. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of this transition is that first-time managers are responsible for getting work done through others rather than on their own.

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it.

You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager.

We've delegated politics to bankers. The European Central Bank is inside Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank is inside the Bundesbank.

I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don't succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You've got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.

People don't take power. Somebody has to give it to them.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.