Quotes About Incompetence

#1. You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I'd been on the island with Gilligan, he'd have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. 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

#3. When you are full of fear,
there is trouble everywhere.
When you are full of hope,
there are opportunities everywhere.
Reaping little from big chances is incompetence;
reaping much from small chances is intelligence.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#5. The more closed the circle, the more difficult it is for 'outsiders' to break in. Their very difficulty in entering may be taken as a sign of incompetence, a sign that the insiders were right to close their ranks.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#6. This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging - bloodbaths each, bloodbath major and bloodbath minor, ugly, squirrelly hateful clandestine wars marked by betrayal, incompetence and corruption. Don't get me started.

Claire Messud

#7. What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.

Zygmunt Bauman

#8. The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

Robin Hoyle

#9. 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

#10. Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

Mike Barnicle

#11. Wait. You work for me?"
"I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Jim Butcher

#12. people who are incompetent suffer a dual burden: not only are they incompetent, but they may also be too incompetent to assay their own incompetence, because the skills which underlie an ability to make a correct judgement are the same as the skills required to recognise a correct judgement.

Ben Goldacre

#13. 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

#14. made myself guilty of mass murder so I could be proclaimed innocent of incompetence.

Joe Abercrombie

#15. In the history of modern warfare, it is doubtful if there are any generals at the top of a command pyramid who have displayed such collective incompetence as these two officers.

Shiv Kunal Verma

#16. 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

#17. If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.

Laurence J. Peter

#18. Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

Homer

#19. 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

#20. Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Emily Carr

#21. A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

H.L. Mencken

#22. Bureaucratic cultures arise to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which arise from having the wrong people on the bus in the first place.

James C. Collins

#23. Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

James Cook

#24. Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

Roberto Cavalli

#25. Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter's Paradox): they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.

Laurence J. Peter

#26. The television culture celebrates incompetence.

Bill McKibben

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.

David Limbaugh

#30. What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief?

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

#31. 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

#32. When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

Joseph Heller

#33. I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

Michael E. DeBakey

#34. Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence.

E.W. Hornung

#35. Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.

Orrin Woodward

#36. When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

Robert Kiyosaki

#37. 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

#38. Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end.

Will Durant

#39. He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.

Francine Rivers

#40. A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Bruce Catton

#41. I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation.

Heda Margolius Kovaly

#42. There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.

Steven Magee

#43. Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

Marge Piercy

#44. The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent - or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#45. The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said.

Kate Grenville

#46. 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

#47. Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.

Jonathan Cainer

#48. Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize.

Steve Cioccolanti

#49. 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

#50. Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

Tim Field

#51. Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.

Timothy Miller

#52. We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Chris Christie

#53. One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

Thomas Sowell

#54. I'm intolerant often, especially of incompetence, particularly my own.

Liz Trotta

#55. The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Elbert Hubbard

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Soong May-ling

#61. 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

#62. Because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

Peter Drucker

#63. Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Robert Genn

#64. fisselig (German):
Flustered to the point of incompetence. A temporary state of inexactitude and sloppiness that is elicited by another person's nagging.

Howard Rheingold

#65. Given enough time - and assuming the existence of enough ranks in the hierarchy - each employee rises to, and remains at, his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#66. Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

Carly Fiorina

#67. Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

Mahatma Gandhi

#68. The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

Tammy Bruce

#69. Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist organization. And clearly it's gone from blowing themselves up to knocking down the World Trade Center.

Michael Scheuer

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#74. 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

#75. Just as people will admit to being bad with math more than they will admit illiteracy, business tolerates interpersonal incompetence where it would never allow financial malfeasance.

Rodd Wagner

#76. In other words, the Regent was to be informed that his Captain had been well and truly turned off, in a manner that could not be painted as a revolt against the Regency, or as princely disobedience, or as lazy incompetence. Round one: Laurent. They

C.S. Pacat

#77. Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Charlotte Whitton

#78. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

Ambrose Bierce

#79. One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.

Garry Kasparov

#80. Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk.

Laurence J. Peter

#81. The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.

Doris Lessing

#82. Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

Jane Jacobs

#83. Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

James Cook

#84. Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Mark Twight

#85. Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

Malcolm Gladwell

#86. Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice.

Jeff Strand

#87. We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping.

Sunday Adelaja

#88. violence is the last resource of incompetence

Isaac Asimov

#89. 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

#90. States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they've wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It's only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.

John Barrasso

#91. I'm sure it's very obvious ... how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason ... it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

Vincent Bugliosi

#92. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

John F. Kennedy

#93. History will remember the Superdome debacle - caused by the dearth of evacuation buses - as "Nagin's Folly," mayoral incompetence of the first order.

Douglas Brinkley

#94. These people are beyond all limits of incompetence,' said Lakshman, as he steered his horse close to his brother.

Amish Tripathi

#95. AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

A.O. Scott

#96. I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

Tom Bissell

#97. All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

Vincent Bugliosi

#98. Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#99. Incompetence is the true crisis.

Albert Einstein

#100. The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Jonathan Alter