John Cho Quotes

I always got my work done before playing.

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

Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will get done.

I take care of business.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

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

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

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.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

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

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

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

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.