Top 50 Delegate Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Delegate Quotes from famous people such as Mitchell Baker, Rachel Campos-Duffy, Franklin Foer, Rick Scott, William Whipple, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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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
You know the adage, when you want something done, ask a busy person. It’s so true. Having kids taught me to prioritize, delegate, and accept life’s imperfections. I also learned the all-important skill of jumping off the train: taking breaks in career and passion pursuits to tend to the things that last.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Ukrainians use the term ‘political technologist’ as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first a technical task: Manafort knows how to bullwhip and wheedle delegates at a contested convention.
Franklin Foer
I’m never going to become an expert on how you get delegates. I think what you’ve got to do is follow the will of voters.
Rick Scott
Only nine States have been represented since my arrival ’till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.
William Whipple
You walk into the class in second grade. You can’t read. What are you going to do if you’re going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.
Malcolm Gladwell
I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to the CFO, and then stop worrying about all that ‘numbers stuff.’ Don’t do that. You have to know your numbers inside and out – they are your life blood.
Heidi Roizen
I would point out that Japan’s proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
Hideki Tojo
It’s extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn’t.
Karyn Kusama
Companies can’t delegate social media to the new college grad and think they have it covered.
Clara Shih
My life is such that I can delegate with love.
Jordan Fisher
When I was invited to return to the 2015 One Young World summit in Bangkok, I knew that I had to make it back. One Young World had given me a platform, and for me it was vitally important for new delegates to hear about North Korea.
Park Yeon-mi
When you’re at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.
Marshall Goldsmith
I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention – the ‘superdelegates.’ It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea.
Jim Hunt
Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.
Charles A. Beard
When we first started, I had the time to personally live every project. As I continue to build the company, I’ve learned much better ways to delegate and let the executive team run. It’s just as exciting for me to see the executives succeed as it is the artists.
Scott Borchetta
I can’t imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.
John Cornyn
As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.
Jessica Jackley
The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.
Michael Gerber
Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
Mitt Romney
I think part of being a good leader is listening skills, and I think a big part of leadership is the ability to delegate.
Joe Maddon
Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.
Ron Fournier
I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
Mario Draghi
The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.
Eli Broad
In light of the exit from the race by Ted Cruz and John Kasich, it is now clear that Donald Trump will accumulate the delegates necessary to be nominated by the Republican Party.
Ron DeSantis
When you’re at the top you have to know how to delegate without putting the fear of God into people.
Ainsley Harriott
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
Ben Horowitz
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren
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
All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking.
Hannah Fry
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
Jurgen Klinsmann
The way you delegate is that first you have to hire peo

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
I’m not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.
Rick Scott
The godfather of the modern Mississippi Republican Party, Charles Pickering, left the Democrats in 1964 because the party’s national convention agreed to seat two black delegates.
Steve Kornacki
Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don’t have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
You can’t delegate turning a company around.
Christie Hefner
Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you’re the only one with the answer.
Ronald D. Moore
In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.
John Podhoretz
It is a tenet of representative democracy that MPs are not delegates for their constituents. This means that their decisions and actions are ultimately governed by putting the best interests of all their constituency before all else.
Gina Miller
I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
Dana Rohrabacher
Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.
Bob Barr
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
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
To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.
Huda Kattan
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor W. Adorno
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
Steven Sinofsky
I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.
Dasha Zhukova
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity – and I know we can do this.
Paul Ryan
I have learned to delegate.
Gwen Stefani
I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.
Tyra Banks