Quotes about Competence

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

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.

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.

Whatever you do, do it well.

My model is much deeper than looking after players. My model is understanding the industry, working within it.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

The skill to do comes of doing.

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.

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.