Quotes About Competence

A lot of professions assume that you're going to take eight to ten years just to achieve the minimum level of competence necessary to start to practice. That's been a good grounding force when doing projects, because a lot of things go wrong here and there, but if you just assume that anything worthwhile is going to take five to ten years, they don't feel as severe.

What am I continuing to do myself that I'm not good at?" Improve it, eliminate it, or delegate it.

It sounds like generic advice, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any successful person who didn't have about three skills in the top 25%.

Count on the best people outperforming the worst by about 10:1. • Count on the best performer being about 2.5 times better than the median performer. • Count on the half that are better-than-median performers outdoing the other half by more than 2:1.

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

I'm not the best shooter and I'm not the best scorer, but you do have to respect me because I can go off.

I think that my offense comes from what I do with my defense.

I think I'm a good offensive player, good defensive player. I do it on both ends of the floor.

I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered where I've been like, 'I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me.' I don't want to do something if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

We will give importance to performance while choosing officials.

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you are good enough, age shouldn't come into it.

I think I'm good enough for one-on-one.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

I'm pretty comfortable in a car to know what I'm doing, and I'm exactly the opposite onstage.

Whether it's a car or boat or motorcycle, it's a dangerous item, so you have to show a level of competence and get a license before you're allowed to operate something that's dangerous. Guns are dangerous but you don't have to get a license to operate guns.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall guys operate, it's like: 'Really?' It seems like they're total amateurs when it comes to doing shows and contracts.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.