Quotes About Competence

Clarity breeds mastery.

I've learned that the bigger the ego, the weaker the performance.

leadership is about knowing very little about most things and a staggering amount about a few things

In my businesses, I only allow in top players, because you can't have an A-level company with C-level performers.

you don't need to have the biggest title to do the best job.

The author assumed that the main task of government is to distribute the collective wealth of society among its members, and that, in the matter of distribution, the government is uniquely competent. The fact that wealth can be distributed only if it is first created seemed to have escaped his notice.

Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.

I think he knows exactly what he is doing, and whether we like it or not, I think he is the only one who can deal with the present situation.

John, I might have known it. You do things better and more easily than anyone else.

Politely firing the man, he took charge of financial matters and pored over stacks of incomprehensible bills.

Having often hired people based on general ability, not specific skills—Gates himself being a prime example—Rockefeller acceded to the choice.

Pierpont handled the West Shore affair better than I could have done it myself.

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

You could have been killed." Reacher nodded. "Many times," he said. "But all long ago. Not today. Not by these guys." "You're crazy." "Or competent.

because we can handle this stuff better than men, can't we?

You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

It is dangerous to judge ability by short-term results.

for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success.

To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve-Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues ... 20

If there are 3 girls in a class with 11 boys those 3 girls may feel like they don't belong and no amount of preaching about gender equity is going to change that. But if the class is just girls you may get more girls to sign up and the girls will be more comfortable and will likely gain more competence.

He who can copy can do.

I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.