Narendra Modi Quotes

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

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.

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.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

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

People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

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

I have learned to delegate.

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

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

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

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

Work smart. Get things done.

Don’t keep dogs and bark yourself.

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

Let your monkey do it.

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.

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.