Words matter. These are the best Incompetence Quotes from famous people such as Jacques Dubochet, Jed Mercurio, Mohsin Hamid, Laurence J. Peter, Richard Cohen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.
Standards in public life have decayed over time… Incompetence is the norm.
I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.
Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.
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.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
I’ve always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
India has a high level of corruption, a lethargic bureaucracy and is low on accountability. Investigations are long drawn and often aimless; those in power are rarely sacked for incompetence unless the media sets up a serious clamour for justice.
While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on border security will continue to plague our nation for years to come.
Rebellion has its roots in government’s indifference and incompetence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.
Hillary Clinton cannot run away from her own record of incompetence or from the Obama record of abject betrayal.
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Despite all the hoopla – despite all the umpa – after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into debt of $2.4 billion: some $200 million deeper in debt.
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.
Frankly, I am shocked at the complete level of incompetence exhibited by lawyer after lawyer for Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump.
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Whenever you’re faced with an explanation of what’s going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.
