Generalists Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

— Alexander Pope

“Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down…

— Paul Samuelson

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

— Frank Herbert

Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce…

— Reid Hoffman

It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists.

— Rutger Bregman

A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip…

— David Leonhardt

Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how…

— Jacque Fresco

Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

— A. Alfred Taubman

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

— Lorrie Moore

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to…

— John C. Maxwell