Quotes About Expertise

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

I never took a political science course.

I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their main area of expertise. Some return to business, some practice law, and I... have come back to cinema.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

I have done my post graduation in Business Administration.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

Power is competence.

The most powerful way to convince the interviewer that you can do the job is to show how much you already know about the industry, the company, and the products/services of the company. In other words, enchant the interviewer with how much you already know.

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.

My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.

I don't think anybody does contemporary R&B albums better than me.

What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.

The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don't.

You're not gonna do what we do better than we do it. Even if you're doing what we do, you're not gonna do it better. I'm absolutely convinced of that.

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.