Expertise Quotes - Page 4

• My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Lying, Animal

  Source: www.sacurrent.com

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• The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

  Graham T. Allison

  Winning, Tests, Ability

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• The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

  Paul Krugman

  Habit, Legitimacy, Deficit

  "Crisis of the Eurocrats" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. May 22, 2014.

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• An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

  Dee Hock

  Organization, Important, Principles

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• You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

  Will Smith

  Vision, Way, Figures

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

  Gary A. Klein

  Intuition, Want, Advantage

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Careers, Gains

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• I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.

  Christopher Landsea

  Views, Energy, Environment

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• A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

  Ann Zwinger

  Fall, Cutting, Engineering

  Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.192, Big Earth Publishing

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• Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.

  George Gilder

  School, People, Degrees

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• Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.

  J. K. Rowling

  Bangs, Ineptitude, Mark

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• Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.

  J.R. Ward

  Bisexual, Vampire, Kidnapping

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.348, Penguin

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• Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Humble, Science, Past

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• The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

  Susan Wojcicki

  Motivation, Giving, Google

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• NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.

  Micky Arison

  Vacation, Marketing, Stronger

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• The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of the fiddle, harp and guitar, complemented by an otherworldly voice. To top it off, she comes across as a truly natural and relaxed, people loving performer.

  Jim Sinclair

  Guitar, Voice, People

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• The University of Houston has made an excellent choice by hiring Ron Hughey as its new women's basketball coach. Coach Hughey will bring an expertise and energy level to the program that will excite fans and put Houston Women's Basketball back on the map. Having watched him coach up close, I know his players will improve immensely and love learning from him. I look forward to following Houston Basketball in the years to come.

  Mike Thibault

  Basketball, Player, Years

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• As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

  George Tenet

  Powerful, War, Past

  Director of Central Intelligence Remarks on Iraq's WMD Programs, www.cia.gov. February 5, 2004.

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• Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.

  Ben Marcus

  World, Information, Disorder

  "This week in fiction: Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

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• Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.

  Craig S. Keener

  Book, Writing, Perspective

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• I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

  Ato Boldon

  Football, Player, Firsts

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• Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “
  “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “
  “Everyone is not your customer. “
  “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

  Seth Godin

  Fire, People, Trying

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• As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

  Wen Jiabao

  Believe, United States, Talent

  "CNN Sunday Morning" with T.J. Holmes, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2010.

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• We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.

  Jean Charest

  Hands, Groups, Able

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• This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.

  David Garrett

  Culture, Baylor, Students

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