Quotes About Competence

We are not all capable of everything.

They are able because they think they are able.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

If you lack experience or a particular talent or skill and you don't want to pay the price to acquire it, then hire someone who has it to do the job for you.

The word know-how does not mean knowing how to do something-that's activity knowledge. Know-how is doing that something the right way, with skill and effectiveness, and with minimum expenditure of time and effort.

Competent men in every position, if they are doing their best, know all that there is to know about their work except how to improve it.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.