Quotes about Delegation

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

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate prayer. I'd rather have one God idea than a thousand good ideas.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

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.

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.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

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.

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

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