Competence Quotes · Page 5

“A Sentient Incompetent employee is preferable to one who is Insentient Competent”

— Sudhir Warier

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

— George W. S. Trow

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

— George H. W. Bush

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he…

— Roger Chamberlain

In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.

— Azim Premji

Inequality is going to be a big issue, but competence is going to be the biggest issue. [People] want to see somebody…

— Donald Trump

“Rather than consider personality to be an excuse for their success, men tend to see it for what it is—a form of…

— Valerie Young

“Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn’t also on the line.”

— Brandon Sanderson

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics…

— Jim Costa

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention…

— Max Lerner

Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q.…

— Warren G. Bennis

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd…

— Robert Mueller

Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment.…

— Guy Kawasaki

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence…

— Edsger Dijkstra

The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable.…

— Ban Ki-moon

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are…

— M. Scott Peck

I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the…

— Bill Crow

Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the…

— Charley Reese

“It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that…

— Tom Walsh

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too…

— George Stillman Hillard

I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen.…

— Howard Warren Buffett

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who…

— Virginia Satir

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants…

— Colin Powell

Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things…

— Nancy Gibbs

A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

— Michael J. Gelb

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

— Ayn Rand

In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

— Deborah Tannen

When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs…

— Ernest Sosa

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

— Ramana Maharshi

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

— John Dickey

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

— Herb Kohl

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

— Stephen Covey

Failure doesn't mean you don't have competence and skills. It only means that you didn't gave your 100% . Don't give up keep trying.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

— Susan Maushart

It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or…

— Anonymous

“Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.”

— Amit Kalantri

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

— William Feather