Quotes About Competence

Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.

If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.

The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

The more information you have, the better you're able to have success.

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

In the United States the most able men are rarely placed at the head of affairs

In the United States, I am not sure that the people would return the men of superior abilities who might solicit its support, but it is certain that men of this description do not come forward.

Every man nurses the secret belief that were he God he could do the job much better.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

A woman who acts as if she knows what she's doing gets what she wants.

Once you learn to do it, you'll be expected to do it.

Quello che disapprovava della generazione attuale, ammesso che questo fosse il punto, era che non si potesse fare niente senza esibizionismi. (...) Non si era più capaci di piantarejna carota senza congratularsi dell'impresa.

verdad, joven, si usted no lo sabe, no debería tener un trabajo de tanta responsabilidad.

There were also the Masters of Arcane Knowledge. Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds. These were the kids that could break down an engine and build it back again - no diagrams or instructions needed. They understood things in a real, not theoretical, way. They seemed not to care about their grades.

Influence at work requires that you know what you are doing, have reasonable plans, are competent at the task at hand.