Quotes About Competence

How many people can do what I do, anyways? A handful of guys?

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

I'm a very humble guy, but of course I think I'm dope.

My whole thing is to stay humble and stay confident in my abilities.

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

The common wisdom among former grunts is that competent generals wouldn't have screwed up so bad they got themselves killed and therefore there wouldn't have been any need for a memorial. Soldiers are a cynical bunch.

Jeste?my ofiarami w?asnej kompetencji. Zawsze wysy?a nas tam, gdzie zanosi si? na najci??sz? przepraw?. Wie, ?e poradzimy sobie jak nikt inny. Cholera i jeszcze raz cholera.

Maybe they were. Very little was beyond Noah's capabilities when he wasn't mounting a concerted effort to flunk.

He hired people who were either barely qualified or lacked credentials, so they didn't have the courage to challenge him. He kept a few competent people to whom he channeled the bulk of the work he didn't understand. And his superiors had less technical knowledge than he did.

Think this through," Evan said. "Do I seem like a guy who doesn't know what he's doing?

The work had fallen to me, it seemed, because I knew a little more than the next man, and I was willing to do it.

To win the World Series, you have to be able to do a lot of things well.

One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.

Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.

Arsene Wenger is an ambitious manager, and he knows deep in his heart that he needs five world-class players to compete among the best in Europe.

I don't think the standard of our politicians is very high. And when you get good ones, world-class ones, like a Blair or a Brown or a Thatcher, then they do stand out - they are head and shoulders above everybody else.

A more worldly and competent foreign and defence policy is by far the preferred first line of defence - rather than the default position of relying on expensive but problematic hardware.

If you're talking, you gotta back it up. When you're a little kid, and you know you're the fastest in your grade, and y'all go out for Field Day, you tell everybody you're gonna win. You're not worried about it, because you know you're the fastest.

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.

I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

I know I can catch the football. That's the least of my worries.