Quotes About Expertise

Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

Become the very best in your business!

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

I look at B.J. Penn as one of the best boxers in the business. He's got one of the best jabs around.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

Use your passion and expertise to provide long term value and innovative solutions for your clients

You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.

Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a bar. But he'd be back in hotel room to spend at least one hour a day reading the rules. He knew the rule book better than anybody else.

As society grows, it knows more and more about less and less. It knows more about the little things and less about the big things. It knows more about everything and less about Everything.

people get used to having experts who can solve their problems for them; people can then easily lose motivation to develop their own capacities.

When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro.

This man is different. He can fix anything, do anything. He doesn't work with knowledge, with science—the classified accumulation of facts. He knows nothing. It's not in his head, a form of learning. He works by intuition—his power is in his hands, not his head. Jack-of-all-trades. His hands! Like a painter, an artist. In his hands—and he cuts across our lives like a knife-blade.

This Garner is an interesting guy. He's both a lawyer and a usage expert (which seems a bit like being both a narcotics wholesaler and a DEA agent).