Delegates Quotes - Page 3

• You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability...you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results.

  Buck Rodgers

  Responsibility, Talking, Two

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• I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

  James Altucher

  Entrepreneur, Trying, Would Be

  "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Responsibility, Order, People

  "Across the Great Divide: A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz". Interview with Charles Reinhardt, www.barnesandnoble.com. May 19, 2015.

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• In America, we will use force whenever we like against anyone we regard as a potential threat, and maybe we will delegate that right to clients, but it's not for others.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Use, Clients

  Source: progressive.org

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• Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

  Peter Drucker

  Smart, Decision, Action

  "Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review".

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• If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Numbers, Thrones

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Never delegate. Always empower.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Empowering

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

  Andy Stanley

  Leader, Strive, Wells

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.20, Multnomah

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• So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.

  Kelly Preston

  Children, Husband, Kids

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• No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one...To call such a contract a “constitution” does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Criminals, Doe

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• Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

  Colin Powell

  Ideas, Empowering, Leader

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• lf there is anything that puzzles me in this game lt is that the longer that you are in the job of Prime Minister, the harder you have to work to do your job. With anything else, such as stenography, administering a store, or whatever done it for nine or ten years you get to know the ropes pretty well and it becomes easy and you can spend a lot of time playing golf or something. l feel that the more you know, the more you have to know and the more problems come.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Jobs, Government, Games

  "Pierre Elliott Trudeau".

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• As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

  Azim Premji

  Learning, Way, Excellent

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

  Daniel L. Doctoroff

  Dump, Deals

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• The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

  Andreas Vesalius

  Art, Doctors, Medicine

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• The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.

  Atul Gawande

  Running, Government, Organization

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.37, Profile Books

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• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Virginia, America, Independence

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• Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks of human beings throughout the world. Their major assignment is to prevent God from being glorified in their territory, which they do through directing the activity of lower-ranking demons.

  C. Wagner

  Cities, Evil, People

  C. Peter Wagner (2012). “Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare: Wrestling with Dark Angels”, p.43, Destiny Image Publishers

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• A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

  James Farley

  Men, Conventions, Rigged

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• Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing - but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.

  Saul Alinsky

  Wall, Sorry, Home

  "Gingrich attacks on Obama resurrect Saul Alinsky" by James Rosen, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2012.

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• An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

  Daniel Yergin

  Past, Native Language, Environmental

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• We’'ve broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

  Mitchell Baker

  Broken Heart, People, Foundation

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is an absolute-and they equate that absolute with their mythic god, and they stuff this god with all the characteristics that promote their own egoic inclinations, starting with the fact that if you don't believe in this particular god, you fry in hell forever, which is not exactly a generous view of Spirit.

  Ken Wilber

  Believe, Creativity, Views

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.

  Andy Borowitz

  Years, Watches, Welcome

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Aug 28, 2012

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• I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Essentials, Literature, Language

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