The great question will forever remain, who shall work?
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
There is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times
If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.
We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.
Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.
You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.
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.
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.
