William Feather Quotes

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

Authority does not equal competency.

I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

As long as you're confident in your skill set and what you can do, you're usually good to go.

We all have skills, I guess.

A quality player is a quality player.

Ultimately, it's your talent that counts.

My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

Not everybody can do everything at a high level.

There are roles that I can't do.

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

If you're good enough, the referee doesn't matter.

Competence was attractive.

Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich