Quotes about Competence
Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.
— John Calvin
Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.
— Peter Drucker
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
— Confucius
A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.
— Shonda Rhimes
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.
— Thomas Jefferson
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.
— Peter Drucker
The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.
— Marty Rubin
Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Whatever you do, do it well.
— Walt Disney
The skill to do comes of doing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
— Dorothy Sayers
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
— William Hazlitt