Top 21 Your Incompetence Quotes
#1. Nonsense. Every month it's the same routine, and when you are late, I am late. Do you think I want to get my chestnuts roasted for your incompetence?
R. Cooper
#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. Wait. You work for me?"
"I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
Jim Butcher
#4. 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
#5. I want an immediate explanation of the infernal muddle your incompetence has made.
Anthony Powell
#6. 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
#7. Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.
Orrin Woodward
#8. I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.
Michael E. DeBakey
#9. Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
James Cook
#10. If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
Laurence J. Peter
#11. Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?
Thomas Love Peacock
#12. 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
#13. Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
Brian Eno
#14. She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!
Ayn Rand
#15. A staff increase may produce a temporary improvement, but the promotion process eventually produces its effect on the newcomers and they, too, rise to their levels of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#19. When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.
King Samuel Benson
#20. It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
Peter Drucker
#21. The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
James C. Collins