Competent Quotes

[The most challenging sailing was in the Southern Ocean. But the leadership challenge was comparatively easy.] It was muck and bullets -- battleground leadership... These guys were hanging on by their fingernails. As long as I was technically competent, leading was pretty straightforward. - Simon Walker

[Sternberg returned to his original goal of majoring in psychology, and turned out to be very competent in the higher-level courses.] I'm more of a creative learner... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses. - Robert Sternberg

[S]o long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman? - Susan B. Anthony

[Jackson called President Bush's response] incompetent ... George Bush doesn't care about black people. - Kanye West

[Have distinct roles. Moore is Mr. Inside, heavily involved in the day-to-day running of the company; Greenberg deals mostly with the outside stuff, like marketing and investor relations. But such division of labor only works with two highly competent people.] I think what has really helped us is that each of us believes that either of us could run the company alone... Rather than seeing ourselves as two halves of a whole, we think we're each individually capable of doing the job. - Jerry Greenberg