Robert J. Ringer Quotes

Do what you do best, and link to the rest

If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.

We can't all do everything.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.

I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.

The only way to do everything in your life is to find awesome people to lean on so you can focus your time.

The biggest thing Rick Rubin taught me is that you don't get any extra credit by doing everything yourself.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

I believe in doing what I am best at.

My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.'

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.