Incompetence quotes:

Send

Man cannot live by incompetence alone. -- Charlotte Whitton
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. -- James Cash Penney
Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind. -- Roberto Cavalli
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex. -- Bill Russell
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. -- Billy Joel
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. -- Elbert Hubbard
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks. -- Emo Philips
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. -- Anthony Zinni
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. -- Marlene Dietrich
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. -- Richard Dawkins
Incompetence is the true crisis. -- Albert Einstein
Incompetence is a double-edged banana. -- John Perry Barlow
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles. -- William Wallace
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. -- Robert Genn
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war. -- Marge Piercy
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible. -- Malcolm Wallop
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. -- Kingsley Amis
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. -- Dora Russell
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. -- Dora Russell
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. -- James C. Collins
The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence. -- John Olver
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence. -- Charles Krauthammer
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract. -- Michael Shermer
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. -- Douglas Adams
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against. -- Rush Limbaugh
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. -- Charles Bass
The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq. -- Sherrod Brown
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job. -- Billy Joel
But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason. -- Charles Bass
Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction? -- Margaret Carlson
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. -- Gordon Ramsay
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. -- Graydon Carter
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence. -- Matt LeBlanc
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser? -- Matt Taibbi
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. -- Peter Drucker
Never underestimate the incompetence of government. -- James Cook
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The price of loyalty is incompetence. -- Jonathan Alter
Adventure is a sign of incompetence. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Evil is a form of incompetence. -- Alan Bullock
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war -- Marge Piercy
Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not. -- Jeff Lindsay
Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence. -- James Cook
When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence -- Arthur C. Clarke
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. -- Orrin Woodward
I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness. -- Michael E. DeBakey
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence -- Kingsley Amis
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. -- Quentin Crisp
Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret. -- Julian Assange
Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm. -- Woody Allen
All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution. -- Chris Matthews
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence. -- Bob Herbert
Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable. -- Timothy Miller
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence. -- Jim Butcher
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence. -- Burt Prelutsky
If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already. -- Laurence J. Peter
The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence. -- Amit Kalantri
My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence. -- Jimmy Page
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. -- Rands
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. -- George R. R. Martin
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. -- H. L. Mencken
Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence. -- Orrin Woodward
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. -- Jim Babka
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous. -- Carly Fiorina
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America. -- Chris Christie
Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God. -- Emily Carr
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. -- Brian Eno
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. -- Bruce Catton
The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence. -- Robin Hoyle
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm. -- Woody Allen
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. -- Barbara Mertz
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual. -- Criss Jami
AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. -- A. O. Scott
--
Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself. -- Mark Twight
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. -- Charles Krauthammer
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. -- Peter Drucker
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor. -- Homer
The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence. -- John Galliano
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence. -- Peter Drucker
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid. -- Jane Espenson
Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning. -- Tim Field
--
Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him. -- Donna VanLiere
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players. -- Stephen Rodrick
For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement. -- Helen Zille
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome. -- Carol Moseley Braun
I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline. -- Forrest Gregg
I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds. -- Steven Magee
My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. -- Peter S. Beagle
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude. -- George V. Higgins
The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization. -- Chris Alexander
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination. -- Richard Hofstadter
Martha Stewart published her recipe for disaster -- mix one part arrogance with two parts incompetence, simmer in the juices and then serve hot in the can. -- Jay Leno
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving. -- John Stossel
Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority. -- Paulo Coelho
Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own. -- Scott Adams
Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence. -- Paulo Coelho
What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government. -- Joseph Muscat
When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light. -- Steven Magee

Send