Quotes About Competence

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.

Your company does not belong inmarkets where it cannot be the best.

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Be the best at what you're good at

I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Become the very best in your business!

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.