Incompetence Quotes - Page 4

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

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Guarantees, Maintaining

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.189, Routledge

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• It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

  Peter Drucker

  Moving, Excellence, Energy

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• In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

  Anthony Zinni

  War, Lying, Iraq

  "Battle Ready (Commander Series)". Book by Anthony Zinni, Tom Clancy and Tony Koltz, www.nbcnews.com. 2004.

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• 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

  Running, Iraq, Waste

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• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  William Stewart Halsted

  Science, Medicine, Weapons

  Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 23: 191 (1912)

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• 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

  Profound, Levels, Problem

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• 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

  Fall, Inspiration, Years

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• A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Money, Untrustworthy, Careless

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• 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

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• 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

  Life, Retirement, Genius

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• Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

  Marge Piercy

  War, Burning, Dinner

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'What's that smell in the kitchen?'

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• I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Summer, Sweet, Unique

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• The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

  Malcolm Wallop

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.

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• 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

  Technology, Community, Levels

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• A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

  Ayn Rand

  Zero, Suffering, Weakness

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.32, Penguin

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Imperfect, Oligopoly, Monopoly

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.226, Princeton University Press

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• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Honesty, Ignorance, Knowledge

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Honesty, Lying, Tired

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• Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Get Away, Nobody Knows

  Source: www.questia.com

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• 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

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

  Peter Drucker

  Giving, Quality, Use

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.280, Routledge

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• 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

  People, Would Be, Being The Best

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• I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence of which there is so much. No sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our laws – or still worse, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash – I am not able to look the other way.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Government, People

  Donald Trump’s Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, abcnews.go.com. July 22, 2016.

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• You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

  Inge Lehmann

  Men, Ignorant People, Vain

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

  Robert Genn

  Book, Flow, Natural

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