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You want to delegate as much as you possibly can from what it is you do today. Because
that's what you do today. You're a part technician, part entrepreneur, and you want to be delegating
that. So you delegate everything in order to up level, up level, up level. You have
to keep delegating and delegating and delegating.
Always, always, always retain responsibility. And by that, when I say delegate everything
except the responsibility, it's your business; it's your responsibility. You don't blame
other people for it. If it's got to be somebody's fault, it's your fault, because you're the
business owner. Because you didn't train the people properly, or because you're tolerating
someone who's there to help you look at yourself and up level yourself.
That's the responsibility part, and that, at the end of the day, when you go to a judge,
and the judge says "Well, who's responsible?" -- because that's what the judge does, right?
-- the judge is going to say "The owner of the business is responsible." I talked briefly
about that fellow who always sat on the loading dock and his boss said, "You can't do that.
Don't do that. Stop doing that," blah blah blah. Well, that was his responsibility. He
didn't fire that guy, and the judge said "you're responsible for that."
So delegate everything. It's your day-to-day tasks, your week-to-week tasks. Delegate those
things. There are other people who can do them lots better than you.