Circle Of Competence Quotes & Sayings

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle. — Warren Buffett

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature. — Stephen Rea

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter. — Warren Buffett

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. — Francis Parkman

When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether. — Thomas Steinbeck

The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If that's what you call truth in this wicked world,
no wonder why you're so desperate to defend it. — Toba Beta

I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality. — John Buchan

estate got to me first. Just as the song's reaching its peak, a fist pounds on my window. I stop singing and dive for the stereo controls, spinning the volume to zero. I wind down the window. Fat, cold raindrops bounce in off the door sill. Frogger leans in and fixes me with those big, wide-apart eyes that earned him his nickname. "What you singing to?" "Metallica," I say. I'm not ashamed of my Neil Diamond fan club membership. But it doesn't do me any favours — Rob Aspinall

Perfection can be had by everybody. — Swami Vivekananda

You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very — Warren Buffett

You have to stick within what I call your circle of competence. You have to know what you understand and what you don't understand. It's not terribly important how big the circle is. But it is terribly important that you know where the perimeter is. — Rolf Dobelli

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively. — Daryl Hall

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. — Charles Soule

The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you're here. I figure the next one will take care of itself. — Tom Spanbauer

What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word "selected": You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital. — Warren Buffett

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter. — Warren Buffett

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. — Eric Holder

So it was agreed: we would while we were here seek the whole of the Oxford thing, together when we could, apart when we must. And I did, most faithfully, recount all to her, and in the end what was to prove the deepest part of our Oxford days we shared completely. One — Sheldon Vanauken

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand. — Mohnish Pabrai