Top 26 Quotes About Incompetence At Work
#1. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
#3. Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.
Frederick Lenz
#4. People deal with all sorts of obstacles at work. There is the fear of failure, plus confrontations with mindless bureaucracy, with other people's egos, with your own ego, with unethical practices, with incompetence, and a wide variety of issues related to race, gender, and sexual orientation
Lodro Rinzler
#5. Balsam, which she had from a Bohemian and which has the miraculous
Alexandre Dumas
#6. I hate incompetence. I think it's probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn't make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary.
Ayn Rand
#7. It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can ... explore the depths of the seas and build an international space station, we have not been able to make childbirth safe for all women around the world ... This is one of the greatest social causes of our time.
Thoraya Obaid
#8. I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.
Toks Olagundoye
#9. Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.
L. Neil Smith
#10. Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.
Ron Kaufman
#11. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
Bob Ainsworth
#12. The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence x 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.
Laurence J. Peter
#13. Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.
Stephnie Weir
#14. Wait. You work for me?"
"I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
Jim Butcher
#15. If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
Laurence J. Peter
#17. While God can work through us in spite of our mistakes, incompetence, and lack of preparation, he commends skill and uses it for his glory.
Bob Kauflin
#18. I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.
Kim Basinger
#20. To make the peaks higher.
[His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]
Wickliffe Rose
#21. Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
#22. People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
Pearl Bailey
#23. The computer may be incompetent in itself
that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.
Laurence J. Peter
#24. What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win ... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
Ben Carson
#25. These are the results of public security cams at work, recording routinely those who come and go. Apparently, it functions as a wondrous preventative because nothing deters crime so much here as the fear of getting caught. Incompetence is the bogey that haunts all Bug dreams.
Ann Aguirre
#26. Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.
Albert Claude
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