Competence Quotes

“Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.”

“Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.”

“Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.”

“If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.”

“Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.”

“The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.”

“The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.”

“Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”

“It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.”

“You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.”

“I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.”

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

“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”

“The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.”

“If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.”