Quotes About Competence

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

The wrong place to start is to hire familiar people who are in your comfort zone—good buddies, but not the best in their skill set. Such people are difficult to fire and hard to manage.

We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school?

To succeed, managers have to become proficient at their superficiality.

to be a successful manager, let alone—dare I say—a great leader, maybe you don't have to be wonderful so much as more or less emotionally healthy and clearheaded.

can any organization really be sure of its strengths before it tests them? Every strategic change involves some new experience, a step into the unknown, the taking of some kind of risk. Therefore no organization can ever be sure in advance whether an established competence will prove to be a strength or a weakness.

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it`s all you know how to do.

It all depends with how much judgment and knowledge the thing's done.

a French dexterity combined with Italian acting.

A country cannot live in disorder, incompetence, irresponsibility, uncertainty, and corruption.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

She'd been in math classes with Quentin since they were ten years old, and anything he could do she could do just as well, backward and in high heels if necessary.

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

My advantage is my skill so I have to use it.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

So far, the general perception, including the perception in India, was that we are not capable of using high technology. They simply refused to believe an Indian can do it! I somehow was not ready to accept that this is not possible.

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

Well, for me, I don't need validation from no one to tell me what type of player I am or number to tell me throughout the year what type of player I am. It's all about your ability to go out there and just compete.

When you're that comfortable with your own product, with your own work rate - so to speak - that's when you become valuable. That's when people start vying for you, to ply your trade in their wrestling match.

Nobody will give a single rupee if you cannot match value in a professional way. For that, you need paid professionals.

I think investors ought to focus on making sure that the stock is within their circle of competence, that it's worth a lot more than it's valued at - and once you have those two things, a stop-loss makes no sense.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.