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 | "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in
anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity." | |
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Lazurus Long
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| "An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A
competent attorney can delay one even longer." | |
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Evelle J. Younger
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| "Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in
people." | |
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David Sarnoff
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| "Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being
incompetent." | |
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Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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| "Every advantage has its tax." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Every disadvantage has got it"s advantage." | |
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Johan Cruijff
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| "Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a
considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and
still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace." | |
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Frederick W. Taylor
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| "It"s them as take advantage that get advantage i" this world." | |
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George Eliot
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| "MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial
pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in
the first group; there was less competition there." | |
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Shrimati Indira Gandhi
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| "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
ignorance." | |
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James Thurber
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| "Never keep up with the Jones. Drag them down to your level." | |
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Quetin Crisp
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| "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." | |
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Quentin Crisp
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| "Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become
competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn
what we do not know." | |
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Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
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| "The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is
competence, because it"s so rare." | |
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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| "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you"re still a
rat." | |
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Lily Tomlin
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| "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you?re still
a rat." | |
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Jane Wagner
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