Delegate Authority Quotes & Sayings

For a team to succeed, responsibility must go down deep into the organization, down to the roots. Getting that to happen requires a leader who will delegate responsibility and authority to the team. Stephen Covey remarked, "People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work, because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses." Good leaders seldom restrict their teams; they release them. — John C. Maxwell

Enguerran looked up at Damen. The last
time they had faced one another,
Enguerran had been trying to
bar Damen from Touars's hall. An
Akielon has no place in the company of
men. — C.S. Pacat

Let go of your ego's need to be right. — Wayne W. Dyer

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

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way — Ronald Reagan

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

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders. — Craig Groeschel

Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate authority to government to defend us. By contrast, we don't have a natural right to take the property of one person to give to another; therefore, we cannot legitimately delegate such authority to government. — Walter E. Williams

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

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole

Republican theory clearly stated that the people held all political power, and only they could delegate authority to a government. The people were free to change governments at will. They didn't need permission from incumbents. — James D. Best

The oldest rule in the book is that you can delegate authority, but never responsibility - not even to higher authority. — Taylor Anderson

The more that things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change. — Daniel Lapin

The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes, and that the president may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the attorney general. It's important to understand, senators, that the rules and the methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities. — Jamie Gorelick

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while — Janet Evanovich

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property. — Dixie Lee Ray

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

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders. — Craig Groeschel

I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed in solving their problems fairly and efficiently at a grassroots level, they retain control over their lives. Insofar as they delegate their problem solving to a higher authority, they lose control over their lives. — Peace Pilgrim

All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles
and ghosts of men, and spirits
behind those birds of flame.
I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes,
I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through. — Ada Limon

Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true. — Kofi Annan