Incompetence Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Common Sense, Upset, World

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• I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

  Rands

  Believe, Email, Laziness

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Home, Ignorance, America

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

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• Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Fire, Agency, Political

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• 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

  Fathers Day, Kings, Dad

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Choices, Conspiracy, Explanation

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• Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Men, Ability, Live By

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• 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

  Believe, Discipline, Forgiving

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• Evil is a form of incompetence.

  Alan Bullock

  Evil, Good And Evil, Form

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• The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There

  Femi Fani-Kayode

  Confused, Clueless, Character

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

  Chris Christie

  America, Deceit, Needs

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• 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

  Trying, Busy, Declaring

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.29, Random House

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• Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Opportunity, Men

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Evil

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Causes, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

  Bill Russell

  Funny, Basketball, Sex

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• 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

  Years, Stories, Four

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• O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!

  Ogden Nash

  Home, Differences, Unhappy

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Leadership, Work, Intelligence

  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969). An earlier version by Peter was reported in the Wall Street Journal, 8 June 1967: "The Peter Principle is this: In each hierarchy, whether it be government, business, etc., each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Every post tends to be occupied by an employee incompetent to execute its duties... . Dr. Peter explains that the work is done by people who have not yet attained final placement at their level of incompetence." See Scott Adams 1

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Organization, Principles

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• Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

  Dora Russell

  Marriage, Army, Law

  "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, p. 241, 1927.

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• Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

  Kingsley Amis

  Laziness, Journalism, Characteristics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Self Esteem, Political

  "Alice Shrugged". December 18, 2008.

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• 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

  Dream, Winning, Play

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• Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Self, Hatred, Missing

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