Wilmer Valderrama Quotes

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

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?

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

I have learned to delegate.

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

I can let the team do the talking for me.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

I believe in delegating power.

Leadership and partnership go together.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

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