Competence Quotes

“For a naval officer to be an effective leader, he must be a competent mariner.”

“I can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

“I've always believed that you have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.”

“I know how to make the system work. I know how to get things done.”

“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.”

“Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts.”

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”

“Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.”

“If they were morally honest, they were intellectually competent.”

“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”

“Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers won't drown.”

“The search for better, for more competent men, from the bottom to the top of the ranks, is the search for the quickest and surest method of attaining the maximum prosperity.”

“An adventure is a sign of incompetence.”

“This election is not about ideology. It's about competence.”

“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”

“You don't have to be corrupt to be a bad mayor. You just have to be inept.”

“What do people really want from work? They want to be competent and to achieve.”

“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and we do not need to be professionals to know if our leaders are competent.”

“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.”