Quotes About Delegation

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

Collins' comment was: 'a captain who sent his crew to sea, and tried to direct operations from dry land'.

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

This doesn't mean you want to spend your time doing it. If you spend your time, worth $20–25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources. It is important to take baby steps toward paying others to do work for you.

In my case, I use spam filters, autoresponders with FAQs, and automatic forwarding to outsourcers to limit my e-mail obligation to 10–20 e-mail responses per week. It takes me 30 minutes per week because I used systems—elimination and automation—to make it so.

NR: To have others work for you.

NR: To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time.

People can't believe that most of the ultrasuccessful companies in the world do not manufacture their own products, answer their own phones, ship their own products, or service their own customers. There are hundreds of companies that exist to pretend to work for someone else and handle these functions, providing rentable infrastructure to anyone who knows where to find them.

This will set the stage for replacing yourself with Automation, which in turn permits Liberation. For both tracks, some definitions are in order.

How Much of Your Life Is Making Versus Managing? How Do You Feel About the Split?

To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time.