Baltasar Gracian Quotes

If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.

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.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

I have learned to delegate.

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.

Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

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

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

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

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.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.