James Wyatt Quotes

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.

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 discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

I don't know why the word 'solopreneur' is in our lexicon. Nobody can physically do it all by themselves, and more importantly, why would they want to? Being the sales team, the HR department, management, and production all by yourself is terrible. Period.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

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.

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'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

I never do any brainwork that anyone else can do for me

There is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

For some time past I have conscious that I was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result.

One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.

As long as we are one of the most expensive countries to produce in, we should focus on cutting costs that directly and indirectly weigh on business.

The entire idea of building a series of systems in a business is simply this - to create the tools that allow you, as a business owner, to increase productivity and get the job done. The idea behind these systems, of course, is to quit needing your judgement or input in every area of the business.

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won't be cute on a tombstone? 'Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.'