Quotes of Incompetence - somelinesforyou

“ Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. ”

- Quintilian

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

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Man cannot live by incompetence alone. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. ”

- Eugene McCarthy

“ Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. ”

- Edward de Bono

“ The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others. ”

- B. R. Hayden

“ The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ”

- Anais Nin

“ What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. ”

- William Faulkner

“ The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. ”

- Unknown

“ What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it. ”

- C. J. Weber

“ The record for rebuilding will be staggering, but it will pale in comparison to the staggering incompetence of this national government. ”

- Mary Landrieu

“ Burning dinner is not incompetence but war. ”

- Marge Piercy

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

- Laurence Peter

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

- Dora Russell

“ In some cases, it's managerial incompetence. ”

- Stephen Hess

“ In other instances, it's political incompetence. ”

- Stephen Hess

“ Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. ”

- Albert Ellis

“ Inability to pay decides for many of us perplexing questions that worry the well-to-do. ”

- William Feather

“ Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence. ”

- David Steinberg

“ He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. ”

- Douglas Adams

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

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence. ”

- Unknown

“ Man cannot live by incompetence alone. ”

- Charlotte Whitton

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

- Laurence J. Peter

“ 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

“ 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
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