Quotes About Competence

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square.

Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

intermixed with an exceedingly high level of competence on the tactical and operational side was a complete inability to see a relationship between means and ends on the level of grand strategy.

Sus pretensiones, pues, son infundadas, porque el esfuerzo realizado no nos hace más competentes, sino menos; la ejecución, en términos generales, será deficiente, propensa al error y requerirá más tiempo del que hubieran exigido las tareas por separado.

The one thing I remember from Fort Benning is that they didn't seem to be nobody much smarter than I was, which was certainly a relief.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

intensity of competence that crowds the throat with joy.

true leader exhibited five essential characteristics: intelligence, commitment, integrity, courage, and resourcefulness.

If you were a software developer who knew a lot about cloud computing, you would instantly be familiar with software companies such as Salesforce.com. If you were working in food marketing, your would clearly be familiar with Nestle, Mondel?z International or Yum! Brands. The point here is that there would never be a need to screen thousands of companies in industries you don't know anything about and haven't even heard of. Animal

Pragmatic Programmers get the job done, and do it well.

Despite this series of missteps, this did not impact Apple's capability reputation – on the contrary, the company's reputation protected it from any fallout. Once you have won a reputation for a certain type of competence, in this case producing devices that everyone on the planet wants to own, it is hard to shake off.

As the philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill has said, 'If we are to place or refuse trust we need either unmediated evidence of others' honesty, competence or reliability or mediated evidence that can be checked.

Computers think that they are smarter than us. But they're not!

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

It's very easy to blame others, but very difficult to prove your ability.