120 Quotes About Expertise

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

One of the main functions of jargon is to exaggerate expertise.

When you have valuable expertise, you like to see it put to use. Sometimes an expert will look around for ways in which their hard-won knowledge and skills can be applicable beyond where it’s actually useful.

Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White

Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.

You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic.

An amateur should be more willing to be impressed by the professional than eager to impress the professional.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.