Homer Quotes

One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.

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.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.

I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.

An entrepreneur need not know everything but he or she should lead a team of persons who are thorough in different aspects.

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

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.

God has given each of us one or more special talents....It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given.

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

A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

I would not be able to change a sparking plug and I would not be able to fly a spaceship or build a rocket or whatever. But what I am good at doing is finding brilliant people and surrounding myself with brilliant people.

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war - this is pest control! Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you? Dalek Sec: Four. Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks? Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect. Cyber Leader: What is that? Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.

Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Victory means exit strategy. And it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

If not us, who? And if not now, when?