Competence Quotes

• If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Successful

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• Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, Skills

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• 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. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.

  Chris Hadfield

  Determination, Mean, Tasks

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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

  Michael J. Gelb

  Motivational, Track, Self Improvement

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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Circles, Important, Different

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

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Government, Political, Liberty

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• Competence is a great creator of confidence.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Creator

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

  Ayrton Senna

  Dedication, Idols, Professional Competence

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The test of true competence is the end result.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Tests, Ends, Results

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Basketball, Self, Rome

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• One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspiration, Keys, Discipline

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.13, Jaico Publishing House

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• The five C's of expanding your capacity.
  1. Build your confidence.
  2. Expand your connections.
  3. Improve your competence.
  4. Strengthen your character. If character is not strengthening your capacity is weakening. We need to check our leadership for leaks.
  5. Increase your commitment.

  Sheila Heen

  Commitment, Character, Connections

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• There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Leader, Quality

  John C. Maxwell “Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

  George Washington Carver

  Common, Achieving Success, Wells

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• Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Basketball, Character

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• Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

  Jon Stewart

  Graduation, Fall, Age

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

  Peter Drucker

  Order, Office, Titles

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Air, People, Enchantment

  Guy Kawasaki (2011). “Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions”, p.53, Penguin

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• True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Ability

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

  Walter Annenberg

  Inspirational, Persistence, Order

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• There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

  Fred Thompson

  Law, Skills, Degrees

  "Choosing a New Supreme Court Justice". "Special Report With Brit Hume", www.foxnews.com. July 06, 2005.

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• Competence is the enemy of change!

  Seth Godin

  Change, Enemy

  Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ayn Rand

  Gold, Morality, Standards

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Wisdom, Motivation

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

  Brian Tracy

  Mind, Quality, Locks

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 15, 2016

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