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Quotes About Competence

Scratch yourself with your own nails; always do your own business, and when you intend asking for a service, go to a person who can appreciate your merit.
~ Arabic proverb
Politics, these days, is no occupation for an educated man, a man of character. Ignorance and total lousiness are better.
~ Aristophanes
To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary -- nature, study, and practice.
~ Aristotle
It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
~ Aristotle
I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.
~ William Godwin
I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.
~ Luther Allison
Just like only qualified people should work in films, only qualified people should review the film.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
~ Chris Lilley
There are a lot of problems with democracy. We need to think about how to find the people most qualified for the job.
~ Frankie Boyle
You can disagree with somebody and still think they're qualified.
~ Michael Capuano
Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
~ Penn Jillette
Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.
~ James Garner
I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.
~ Glenn Kelman
I think a person of colour in any situation should be qualified to do the job. Not just because of the colour of their skin.
~ Motsi Mabuse
I am non-corrupt, qualified, eloquent and fully committed to the party.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
Just because you've seen 'My Cousin Vinny' doesn't qualify you to be a federal judge.
~ John Kennedy
In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.
~ Rob Van Dam
I think I showed my qualities and the way I can play.
~ Andre Schurrle
I know my qualities, I've got nothing to prove here in England, they know me here.
~ Kolo Toure
Everyone knows what my qualities are and what I can do for the team.
~ Pepe
I know my game and I know my qualities.
~ Nicolas Anelka
Moise Kean looks like a very good footballer with a lot of different qualities.
~ Gylfi Sigurdsson
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
~ Matt Mullenweg