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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).

  Larry Sanger

  Mean, Community, Disrespect

  "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin.org, December 31, 2004.

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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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• History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't think that people whose expertise lies in one thing should try to make grand theories about something (a) where it's very hard to get the evidence to prove that you're right and (b) where it's much too easy to make up stories that seem right.

  Richard Lewontin

  Lying, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.

  Marc Benioff

  Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities, Rope

  "Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: ‘Many CEOs are afraid to get too personal’". Interview with Antony Ha, venturebeat.com. October 30, 2009.

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• We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about "everything that is," for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a "planetary agenda" for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.

  Sallie McFague

  Thinking, Religion, Agendas

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• My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

  Henry Sy

  Real, Shopping, Together

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• Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

  Charles Garfield

  Over You, Purpose, Care

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• To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

  Hugh Laurie

  Jobs, Knowledge, People

  "Of Moods and Motorcycles". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. February 2009.

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• Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with their child.... But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much similar to those of the teacher. In fact they feel they know their child better than anyone else and that the teacher doesn't possess any special field of authority or expertise.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Team, Skills

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fun, School, Cutting

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• Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Stars, Emotional, Needs

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• We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.

  Steve Jobs

  Ipods, Design, Trying

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.38, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Fashion, Past, Class

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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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