Quotes About Expertise

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.

I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Rules are there for a reason. You are only allowed to break them if you are a master. If you're not a master, don't confuse your ignorance with creativity or style.

The Seeker—in real life, as well as in Rowling's Potter series and its Quidditch game—is he or she who takes that sense of significance more seriously than anything else. The Seeker is therefore the person who is playing the game that everyone else is playing (and who is disciplined and expert at the game), but who is also playing an additional, higher-order game: the pursuit of what is of primary significance

That same brutal principle of unequal distribution applies outside the financial domain—indeed, anywhere that creative production is required. The majority of scientific papers are published by a very small group of scientists.

You have very little right to break the rules, until you have mastered them.

When people wield authority, by contrast, they do so because of their competence—a competence that is spontaneously recognized and appreciated by others, and generally followed willingly, with a certain relief, and with the sense that justice is being served.

It is useful to take your place at the bottom of a hierarchy. It can aid in the development of gratitude and humility. Gratitude: There are people whose expertise exceeds your own, and you should be wisely pleased about that.

Make Yourself Invaluable

terms of the specifics, you're going to be saying things like: "We're the number-one this … we're the fastest-growing that … we're the foremost experts in this … The chairman of the board, a man named so?and-so, is one of the most astute minds in the entire XYZ industry … He's accomplished X … he's accomplished Y … and he's built this company around one thing above all: [whatever that is].

If they're not, then it will serve as a major red flag that the person who's asking them is not an expert in their field. For example, imagine being on the receiving end of the following series of intelligence-gathering questions, asked in exactly this order:

I convince the prospect that I am a highly competent, ultraknowledgeable professional by coming off as a world-class expert in my field, right out of the gate.

and stressing your consonants so that your words have intensity to them. It's like you're talking with your fists clenched, and there's an active volcano inside you ready to erupt at any second—but of course it doesn't, because you're an expert who's in total control.

You probably don't want to put me in any situation where I'm expected to know something about the sportball.

Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.

The less you know about a topic, the more you overestimate the quality of your knowledge.

Tú eres como ese anillo: una joya, valiosa y única. Y como tal, sólo puede evaluarte un verdadero experto. ¿Por qué vas por la vida pretendiendo que cualquiera descubra tu verdadero valor?