If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.
Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
What do I look for in a collaborator? Pretty much anyone who asks me to do something.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.
What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.
No duty ... was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.
I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.
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.
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.
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.
If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.
I’ll take care of South America. Just leave it to me.
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.
I never count my money. I think that's your job.
When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have somebody say, "This is what I want you to do" and to stretch your abilities.
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
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.
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.
