Quotes About Competence

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

He loathed the cruelty and brutality of its leaders, who had "gained power more by bribery, backstabbing, toadyism, and favoritism than by knowledge and competence.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

When I think of the greatness of my job, I am amazed, but on reflection, who is as good as I am? I know of no one.

SELF-CONFIDENCE IMPLIES THAT YOU ARE CONVINCED YOU CAN ACT UPON YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE.

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

People still complain, however, as did St. Teresa of Avila four centuries ago, of the lack of knowledgeable spiritual guides. What should one do if he cannot find a competent director? It is my opinion that in the area of advancing prayer, as also in this matter of alleged communications, no direction is preferable to probably incompetent direction

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

Needless to say, I don't want a woman working for me who's waiting for me to shoot myself in the foot.