Quotes About Delegation

When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I am great at delegating when someone is doing great work. The problem - and this sounds terrible - is that there are very few people who are strong enough for you to be able to delegate to.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

If you want something done ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do the more you can do.

You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did

Delegation of kindness is an epidemic of success

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

Letting go and trusting others to do things well is one of the more challenging aspects of being a leader of a growing organization.

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority, you create leaders