153 Quotes About Professionalism

Professionals never guess—they make it their business to know their business.

What would happen if you allowed a bug to slip through a module, and it costyour company $10,000? The nonprofessional would shrug his shoulders, say“stuff happens,” and start writing the next module. The professional wouldwrite the company a check for $10,000!

Most *educated* people would rather be called *professional* than be said to be *humane.*

Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence.

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

a modern-day conservator of Monticello says that Woodmont Jefferson as an amateur architect rather than a professional was that he made things more complicated than they needed to be for any practical purpose.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.