Lyman Abbott Quotes

My skills are still my skills.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well, but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire.

Learn, Earn, Serve

Power is competence.

But I'm professional: if I need to do extra training I do extra training.

I know what level my skills are and what I am still yet to be capable of by getting better.

For me to be at my best, I need to do something I'm decent at, which is coach.

I've proved what I can do in bits, but I need to get better at everything.

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

Authority does not equal competency.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

An expert is anyone who can already do what we want to do.

He can do most who has most power.

The future belongs to the competent

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

Look for competence not claims.

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.