Quotes About Competence

She certainly didn't have the ability to share her ability with the envious ones—she could only share the products of her ability. They gladly took those, and then resented her for being able to produce them. Most human beings, she concluded long ago, love to worship from afar people with extraordinary ability, but prefer to have their friends be genial incompetents. And, of course, most of them get their preference.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Don't grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

Do not worry that your abilities are not appreciated, you should reflect on yourself whether you really have capabilities.

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

They're not any smarter than they have to be and they're just as smart as they need to be.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

I always had prepared, and I always knew I could do it.

the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action.

The Macintosh experience taught me that A players like to work only with other A players, which means you can't indulge B players.

If you need slides, it shows you don't know what you're talking about.

La gente que sabe de lo que está hablando no necesita PowerPoint

These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very

We select such investments on a long-term basis, weighing the same factors as would be involved in the purchase of 100% of an operating business: (1) favorable long-term economic characteristics; (2) competent and honest management; (3) purchase price attractive when measured against the yardstick of value to a private owner; and (4) an industry with which we are familiar and whose long-term business characteristics we feel competent to judge.

The key is having more information than the other guy – then analysing it right and using it rationally.

All the great heroes of your life have taught you nothing. And they are no better than you, in any way. Politicians, actors, athletes, rock-stars, your boss, therapist, teacher, spouse, or whoever, are just skillful at what they do—nothing more.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

I can hold my own with any man." "Now, don't be modest, sis, you could thrash any man I know.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.