Competence Quotes

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

You can be very, very competent... but if you're not willing to speak out... have the confidence based on your knowledge... what's the point?

You've got to be able to manage change. You've got to be able to learn new tasks.

As we make investments in technology and learn how to automate things, we want our people to learn that and go with us.

We don't know what Sam would have done in these moments, but we know he would have been adapting - and he would have been aggressive. We're drawing on that legacy today and tapping into that DNA.

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.