Quotes About Proficiency

You have to discover your area of talent to be effective

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

I think I can fit in multiple styles and adjust to multiple styles just because of my skill set.

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

So much technology, so little talent.

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Be the best at what you're good at

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

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

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

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

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

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