Quotes About Competence

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

I like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.

Women can do everything men can do the rest.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

Handle your tools without mittens.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.