Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old delegation quotes, delegation sayings, and delegation proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.Stephen Covey
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The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man ThinkingRalph Waldo Emerson
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Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.Timothy Firnstahl
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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
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The great leaders are like the best conductors. They reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.Blaine Lee
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When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.Craig Groeschel
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Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.Ronald Reagan
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I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.James Altucher
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You can delegate authority, but you can never delegate responsibility for delegating a task to someone else. If you picked the right man, fine, but if you picked the wrong man, the responsibility is yours -- not his. Richard E Krafve
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The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then guide the horse with loose reins and seldom use the spurs.Sandra Day O'Connor
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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.George S. Patton
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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 while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
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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
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The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.Anthea Turner
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Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.Ronald D. Moore
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Delegation is an issue of respect and how much we respect those that are under us on our team.Dr. Hans Finzel
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Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.George Foreman
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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.Byron Dorgan
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Are we limiting our success by not mastering the art of delegation? …. it's simply a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.Oprah Winfrey
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The first job of leadership is obtaining power. The second job is delegating it to subordinates.JBR Yant
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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.Robert Half
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DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.Ambrose Bierce
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The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.Richard Branson
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Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it . . . . Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.David Ogilvy
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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
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Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.Will Rogers
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Delegation means that he will concern himself with the results of their activities and not with the details of their day-to-day performance. This requires a degree of confidence in them which enables him to accept certain risks. Unless he takes these risks there will be no delegation.Douglas McGregor
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Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.Wayne Day
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Imparting trust, the real meaning of delegation, is a powerful thing.Scott Berkun
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When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.James H. Boren
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Delegation is giving others the opportunity to participate in the story. If you have a good story, people will line up to get involved – to play a part in the story.Eric Phillips
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Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.Jurgen Appelo
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Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.Dave Ramsey
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As soon as a man climbs up to a high position, he must train his subordinates and trust them. They must relieve him of all small matters. He must be set free to think, to travel, to plan, to see important customers, to make improvements, to do all the big jobs of leadership. -Herbert N. Casson
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.Malcolm S. Forbes
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Once you've identified your crucial tasks and sorted out your priorities, try to find a way to delegate everything else. The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.Eli Broad
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.Stephen R. Covey
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Government has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.Alex Ferguson
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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
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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
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There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.Benjamin Graham
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What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.Bill Shorten
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You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results.Buck Rodgers
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For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.C. S. Lewis
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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
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The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.Eli Broad
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As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.Jessica Jackley
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I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.John Ortberg
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It's very important, who has the most delegates. The super delegates should not be the ones making the decision.Linda Chavez-Thompson
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I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.Oren Lyons
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Busy is not a good word, I think. It’s not a good excuse. Get it done; delegate it.Paul Orfalea
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Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.Peter Drucker
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If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you've got to learn to delegate.Richard Branson.
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The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.Robert Pozen
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The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.Vince McMahon
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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