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Quotes About Competence

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
~ Bette Davis
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
~ Bob Edwards
What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
~ Casey Stengel
Anything a man can do, I can fix.
~ Chris Abani
My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
~ Christoph Waltz
I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!
~ Eddie Murphy
No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.
~ George Orwell
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
~ George W. S. Trow
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Service makes men competent.
~ Lyman Abbott
The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
~ Martial
My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
~ Nico
It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
~ J. G. Holland
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
~ Jane Austen
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.
~ Jo Brand
No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
~ John Constable
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
~ John Selden
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
~ John Steinbeck
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"
~ Benjamin Franklin
The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.
~ Rick Riordan
My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea. So yeah, I'm pretty good with gadgets.
~ Leo Howard