Quotes on Expertise

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

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.