Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest.

I have learned to delegate.

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.

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.

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.

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

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

We can't all do everything.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

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

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

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.

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

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 will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

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.

I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.