A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
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A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
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