A Quote by Ron Suskind

Confidence is the public face of competence.

Ron Suskind

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Competence Confidence Face Public

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Ron Suskind
American - Journalist
Born: November 20, 1959

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Ron Suskind

we found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.

Katty Kay

Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

Thomas Szasz

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

James Cash Penney

You must have confidence in your competence.

Elijah Cummings

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

Mary Jo Putney

The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

Ashton Kutcher

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

Susan Maushart

Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public confidence in and, hence, demand for paper money depends on the ultimate confidence - or lack thereof - of the public in the viability of the issuing government.

Murray Rothbard

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

Brian Tracy

We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

Bill Drayton

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

Preston Manning

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

George H. W. Bush

When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.