Delegates Quotes

• If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

  John C. Maxwell

  Impact, Want, Bigs

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.374, Harper Collins

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• You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

  Byron Dorgan

  Responsibility, Authority, Delegation

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• Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.

  Rob Lowe

  Party, Mean, Exercise

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

  Craig Groeschel

  Leader, Authority, Ifs

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• The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Believe, People, Ability

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• If something can be done 80% as well by someone else, delegate!

  John C. Maxwell

  Done, Wells, Ifs

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• As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.

  Azim Premji

  Learning, Tycoons, Bigger

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• When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Jobs, Team, Members

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• Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

  A. B. Simpson

  Leadership, People, Should

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• I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

  Richard Branson

  Team, Responsibility, Giving

  Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

  Craig Groeschel

  Leader, Tasks, Followers

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• I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

  Ken Salazar

  Strong, Team, Believe

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• You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer

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• Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, One Day, May

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• The only way to handle big business is to delegate, delegate, delegate.

  Daniel Burnham

  Business, Way, Bigs

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• 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.

  Esther Hicks

  Letting Go, Care, Staff

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• Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

  Jack Canfield

  Delay, Dump

  Jack Canfield, Kelly Johnson, Ram Ganglani (2017). “Success Affirmations: 52 Weeks for Living a Passionate and Purposeful Life”, p.119, Health Communications, Inc.

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• 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.

  John Ortberg

  Wise, Leaving, Lazy

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• The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Giving, United States

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papers”, p.468

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• The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes, and that the president may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the attorney general. It's important to understand, senators, that the rules and the methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities.

  Jamie Gorelick

  Believe, Responsibility, Law

  Jamie Gorelick's statement on wireless physical searches before the US House of Representatives permanent Select Committee on intelligence, thinkprogress.org. December 20, 2005.

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• If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

  John Oliver

  New York, Cities, Events

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• Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Responsibility, Decision, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Two, Numbers

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• Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, People, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.29, Open Road Media

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