Delegation of Tasks Quotes

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

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

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

Leadership involves risk-taking.

If three come together let them pick a leader.

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

If the head of the state is exemplary and his officials are competent, all things will go well. If the head of the state will worry about minute details, his officials will be lazy, and all things will go bad.

How can I run an agency at the same time?

I have enough problems trying to manage a team, without managing the FA.

The more affiliates I have the more I can sit back and let my brown belt and black belts do the work.

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

Did he really choose Tammy to do his work?

I don't play computer games. What I do is yell at my secretary and say, 'Go on the Internet, and find this or that.'

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

As a manager, you worry about any different issue you have in your squad.

I don't even have a management team. I have people managing my work but there are limitations when it comes to projects.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.

I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.

I don't have assistants and things in the studio.