Delegate Quotes

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

Best, Yourself, Long

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

Father, Understand, Either

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

Decision, Down, Find

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren

Doubt, Trouble, Charge

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
Michael Bloomberg

Power, Control, Nobody

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.
Alton Brown

Work, Learning, Almost

I have learned to delegate.
Gwen Stefani

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
Byron Dorgan

Cannot, Authority

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

Work, Strong, Hard

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

America, State, United

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

Family, Husband, Kids

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
Elliot Richardson

Word, State, Common

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
Jurgen Klinsmann

Away, Means, Authority

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.
Robert Pozen

Confidence, Sense, Won

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, Logical, Foundation

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
Frederick Reines

Peace, Conference, Atoms

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
Mario Draghi

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