Quotes About Competence

You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.

As long as you like yourself, as long as your family like you, as long as you are good at what you do, your staff respect you, and your board have trust in you, that's what is important.

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

I was a decent cook - competent enough to turn out the standard Eighties chalet fare: beef Wellington, banoffee pie, Delia's chocolate bread-and-butter pudding - but it wasn't haute cuisine.

If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.

I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

In the end, only a good actor stands out; if I am not a good actor, I won't stand out.

Your name never stands for anything, only performances do.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.