Quotes About Expertise

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert; but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. —Thomas Sowell, American economist

having a Ph.D. and working in a university is neither necessary nor certainly sufficient to provide one with unquestionable authority, no matter what the subject.

The advice that knowledge-intensive firms produce is usually presented as an authoritative final answer, but look behind the scenes and you discover that knowledge workers themselves are often very uncertain.

Do what you master; master what you do.

Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.

Two thirds of success is skill.

Thought leaders develop a bank of ideas that can be accessed in a moment and can be instantly customized to suit any audience or situation. They become a living encyclopedia of knowledge and expertise.

I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.

A CFO needs to go beyond being "the finance operations expert" to become a corporate strategist who can enhance the firm's valuation and brand, and win over stakeholders' trust and goodwill.

PR experts need to be brilliantly trained and prepared. That's not just good sense - there are very concrete and powerful reasons for that... We used to have between ten or twelve hours to solve a crisis. Now we don't even have ten minutes!

Visuals are becoming an inseparable part of our work as PR experts. Yet at the end of the day, we, the PR experts, are the people who manage content. We are the masters of content, whether it's textual or visual.

I reported many such case histories in my book New Faces, New Futures. Following its publication, and similar articles in leading magazines, I was besieged with questions by criminologists, psychologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

Age is not always the best judge of competence.

Oh, yes!" said Arianna. "You're really good! One of the best.

Like many in their baby boomer generation, they saw doctors as unquestionable experts. You didn't go to them unless you had a high fever or a bad fall or a wound that needed stitching. In that case, you got a diagnosis, you took medicine or had surgery, and you got better, more or less in that order. But if the doctor told you nothing was wrong, nothing was wrong. My parents believed in the power of Western medicine, and therefore so did I.

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

You've got to know your niche! And a niche begins small. We have to concentrate on our niche in a very tangible, practical, and real way!

There may be better lawyers than I, but so far I haven't come across any of them in court.

We tend to assume that when people are experts at one thing, their expertise extends to other areas as well.

Human expertise is too complex to be represented in a simple binary system

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.