Quotes About Proficiency

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

Practice makes polish and polish makes money.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.