George Washington Quotes

If all of us try to do everything, we will accomplish nothing.

When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

We can't all do everything.

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.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

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.

Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and designing the systems to keep your team, not you, busy, busy, busy.

You can't do everything on the field.

Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

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

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't any money. Every day I would have to raise chicken and bread and broccoli and go ahead and spend all my time trading. So, money is a wonderful mechanism.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).