#expertise

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#better #domains #example #expertise #experts

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#critical #did #expertise #father #florida

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#expertise #i #i think #information #inside

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

— Charles Dickens

#expertise #nonchalance #business

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#naïveté #imagination

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#benefit #best #business #continues #country

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#been #being #charities #emotional #expertise

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#before #came #commit #competence #could

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#data #determine #doctor #duty #evaluate

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#am #around #concerned #current #current situation