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Quotes About Delegation

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'
~ Seth Godin
Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.
~ David Cottrell
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.
~ Azim Premji
As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.
~ Azim Premji
Figure out the things you get lost in in your business and your personal life. Then figure out how you can be doing more of those things more of the time. Hire someone and delegate the tasks you hate doing. Partner up with someone who's good at, and enjoy doing the things you're not that into.
~ Jen Sincero
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
~ Andrew Carnegie
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
~ Andrew Carnegie
God, having created his Universe, has now screwed the cap on His pen, put His feet on the mantelpiece and left the work to get on with itself.
~ Andrew Hodges
I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
~ Ken Follett
I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
~ James Cash Penney
You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
~ Byron Dorgan
To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.
~ Huda Kattan
All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking.
~ Hannah Fry
When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.
~ Tyra Banks
When we first started, I had the time to personally live every project. As I continue to build the company, I've learned much better ways to delegate and let the executive team run. It's just as exciting for me to see the executives succeed as it is the artists.
~ Scott Borchetta
My life is such that I can delegate with love.
~ Jordan Fisher
Companies can't delegate social media to the new college grad and think they have it covered.
~ Clara Shih
I believe in decentralized management that includes a lot of delegation, empowerment, and accountability.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.
~ Mike Lee
As a director and captain of the ship, there are many things that demand your attention - crew members, locations, budget etc.
~ Divya Khosla Kumar
If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.
~ Gretchen Rubin