Delegates Quotes - Page 5

• Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

  Colin Powell

  Ideas, Empowering, Leader

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• Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

  Andy Stanley

  Leader, Strive, Wells

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.20, Multnomah

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• Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Leader, World, Climate Change

  Address at the United Nations Climate Summit, delivered 23 September 2014, New York, NY

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• To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

  David McCullough

  Honor, Noble, Sacred

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.

  L. Neil Smith

  Believe, Liberty, Principles

  "What Libertarians Believe" by L. Neil Smith and Rylla Cathryn Smith, www.ncc-1776.org. January 4, 2009.

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• Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate authority to government to defend us. By contrast, we don't have a natural right to take the property of one person to give to another; therefore, we cannot legitimately delegate such authority to government.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Government, Giving

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• There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Play, Choices

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Integrity, Exercise, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

  John C. Maxwell

  Love Is, People, Giving

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• Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

  Hyman Rickover

  Unique, May, Individual

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• Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  One Day, Actors, Done

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.67, Library of America

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• Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Keys, Opposites

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• No matter the organization, the goal, or the mission, you've got to do it through people. It's been that way for me since my first command. I work to understand the people, their views and needs, and how tasks are being carried out.That interaction might cause me to modify my guidance or the way I delegate. It also affords me an opportunity to learn what goals people have and how as their boss I can facilitate their future in ways that not only help them, but also help the ship or the organization.

  Michael Mullen

  Opportunity, Organization, Views

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• One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.

  Mark Mason

  Jobs, Data, Organization

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed in solving their problems fairly and efficiently at a grassroots level, they retain control over their lives. Insofar as they delegate their problem solving to a higher authority, they lose control over their lives.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Democracy, Levels

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.120, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Political, Three

  Thomas Jefferson (1961). “The American Beginnings: The Virginia Declaration of Rights; The Declaration of Independence, in Mr. Jefferson's Original Text, with Some of His Comments Thereon; the Articles of Confederation”

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• Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

  Martin Amis

  Sight, Dimensions, Conventions

  "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov". Book by Martin Amis, 1993.

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• Kerry is well on his way to reaching his magic number of 2,162. That's the total number of delegates he needs to win the Democratic nomination. See for President Bush it's different - his magic number is 5. That's the number of Supreme Court judges needed to win.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Court Judges, Numbers

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• You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

  Keith Rabois

  Way

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• Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

  Keith Rabois

  Opinion, Lows, Should

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• Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

  Keith Rabois

  Mistake, People, Making Mistakes

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Humility, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Business, Growth, Satisfaction

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 01, 2005.

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• There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Men, People, Liberty

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