Plato Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.

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

There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.

Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

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

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.