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A [[Stock Phrase]]. Some characters will occasionally utter this phrase. They're usually people who decide to do something their subordinates failed to do on their behalf.
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'': Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg mutters "If you want something done, do it yourself
== Live-Action TV ==
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== Video Games ==
In ''[[Overwatch]]'', one of Torbjörn's kill quips in gameplay was this. It made sense, since he sees himself as responsible if his inventions fell into the wrong hands, like Talon's.▼
▲In [[Overwatch]], one of Torbjörn's kill quips in gameplay was this. It made sense, since he sees himself as responsible if his inventions fell into the wrong hands, like Talon's.
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode "The Pizza Patrol" featured a pizza parlor that featured the [[Thirty Minutes or It's Free]] policy. After Garfield tricked the delivery boys into missing the deadline every time one of them had to deliver a pizza, the pizza parlor's owner tried to deliver it by himself.
** In another episode, local mailman [[Meaningful Name|Herman Post]] was fired and his former boss, not able to find a mailman willing to take over the turf out of fear of Garfield, decided to deliver the mail himself. After enduring Garfield, he begged Herman to take the job back.
* In ''[[Steven Universe]]'', Holly Blue Agate uttered this line as she draws out her whip and attacked Steven and company.
* In the ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' episode "Jack vs Aku", after the robot assassins that Aku sends after Jack fail even worse than they usually do, he slumps in his throne and mutters, "Guess it's true what they say, if you want something done, you gotta do it yourself..." Then [[Eureka Moment|he gets an idea]] on a way he can do just that, leading to [[Title Drop| the conflict in the title.]]
* In the ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G.", [[Big Bad|Father]] invokes this Trope after yelling at [[Surrounded by Idiots| his moronic henchman]] who didn't know the vault at the Arctic Base was locked, and starts burning it open on his own.
== Real Life ==
[[Napoleon Bonaparte]] said that "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
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