Quotes About Specialization

doing what you are good at will only make you good;

It is an understanding of what you can be the best at. The distinction is absolutely crucial.

And if you cannot be the best in the world at your core business, then your core business cannot form the basis of your Hedgehog Concept.

What we've underestimated is the systemic risk that that very finely tuned system of specialization exposes us to. And so I think we will start to ask whether there are ways that we could build some more robustness into our whole system.

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.

A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.

I'm 100% a sprinter... an old school one, not one of these new guys that can climb and sprint.

If you look at Arijit Singh, Divya Kumar, and Benny Dayal, they aren't competing with each other. They have their individual standing and distinct space of work. I want to create that kind of niche for myself.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.

I've been distilled to this computer nerd.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

One of the most powerful insights in economics is this idea of a division of labor. You do the thing you're good at. Other people do something else that they're good at. The net effect is better for everybody.

The term 'niche' is no longer pejorative.

We are all experts in our own little niches.

We live in a niche world.

Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.

A small company like Nichia should do niche products.

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.