Quotes About Delegation

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Marshall placed enormous trust in Eisenhower, and Ike always honored him for it. "I must have assistants who will solve their own problems," Marshall told him, "and tell me later what they have done." The historian of Eisenhower's presidency can draw a direct line between these words and Eisenhower's own management style as chief executive, when he too would look for powerful and confident lieutenants and allow them the freedom to run their own departments.

if you really care about getting something done, the most efficient way to go about it is obviously to allocate tasks by ability and give people whatever they need to do them.

Why is it that I always get a whole person when all I want is a pair of hands? -Henry Ford

When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.