Quotes About Expertise

If you need slides, it shows you don't know what you're talking about.

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Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Thomas J. Watson Sr. of IBM followed the same rule: "I'm no genius," he said. "I'm smart in spots—but I stay around those spots.")

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

somebody gets better the more you do it. You might think an old

Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.

In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.

challenging an expert and questioning his expertise is the lifebloodof our legal system. . . . It is the only way a judge or jury can decide whom to trust."1

To have lived an entire life of productivity, of self-sufficiency, having been a net giver, never a taker, never relying on others. To call oneself master, to hold oneself out as a source of expertise, to have had the courage and ability and discipline that added up to a meaningful, perhaps even noteworthy life, built over decades from nothing, and then at some point in that serious life, finding oneself searching for calories.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Skill Pill - Any practice or substance that shortens the time required to master a skill or subject.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. —Bruce Lee

Don't worry, I know what I'm doing — I saw this on Pinterest.

The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about.

Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can't get it wrong.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what's the matter. He's just got to know.

A good dentist never gets on your nerves.

The best carpenters make the fewest chips.

All technical professionals have an incentive to make themselves look more complicated than they are so that they can justify the high fees their members charge them for their services.