Delegates Quotes

• If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

  John C. Maxwell

  Impact, Want, Bigs

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.374, Harper Collins

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• When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Jobs, Team, Members

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• Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.

  Rob Lowe

  Party, Mean, Exercise

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.

  Wess Roberts

  Enemy, Assignments, Subordinates

  Wess Roberts (2007). “Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

  Byron Dorgan

  Responsibility, Authority, Delegation

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• If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

  Craig Groeschel

  Leader, Authority, Ifs

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• The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Believe, People, Ability

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• If something can be done 80% as well by someone else, delegate!

  John C. Maxwell

  Done, Wells, Ifs

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• As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.

  Azim Premji

  Learning, Tycoons, Bigger

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• I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

  Richard Branson

  Team, Responsibility, Giving

  Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

  A. B. Simpson

  Leadership, People, Should

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• When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

  Craig Groeschel

  Leader, Tasks, Followers

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• Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Responsibility, Decision, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer

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• Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, One Day, May

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• The only way to handle big business is to delegate, delegate, delegate.

  Daniel Burnham

  Business, Way, Bigs

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• Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.

  Esther Hicks

  Letting Go, Care, Staff

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• Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

  Jack Canfield

  Delay, Dump

  Jack Canfield, Kelly Johnson, Ram Ganglani (2017). “Success Affirmations: 52 Weeks for Living a Passionate and Purposeful Life”, p.119, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

  Ken Salazar

  Strong, Team, Believe

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• Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work.
  In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker.
  Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband.

  Wayne Mack

  Husband, Responsibility, Decision

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• When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

  James H. Boren

  Funny, Business, Humor

  In 'New York Times' 8 November 1970, p. 45

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• I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

  Mario Draghi

  People

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• The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

  Gore Vidal

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Responsibility, Order, People

  "Across the Great Divide: A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz". Interview with Charles Reinhardt, www.barnesandnoble.com. May 19, 2015.

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