the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay. — Marie de Gournay
Our country is being run by incompetent people. — Donald Trump
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence. — Bob Herbert
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. — Thucydides
Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. — James C. Collins
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. — Laurence J. Peter
Short Incompetence Quotes
Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree. — Anton Szandor LaVey
The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Salvor Hardin
Selling cucumbers to a gardener. — Romanian Proverbs
I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness. — Michael E. DeBakey
You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain. — Inge Lehmann
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm. — Woody Allen
Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. — Stephen Hawking
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. — George Bernard Shaw
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex. — Bill Russell
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver
When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful. — DJ Khaled
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. — Thurgood Marshall
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else. — Benjamin Franklin
People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones. — LeCrae
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. — Nina Simone
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses. — Al-Ghazali
My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom. — Fela Kuti
Incompetence And Corruption Quotes
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack. — Soong May-ling
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack. — Madame Chiang KaiShek
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous. — Carly Fiorina
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. — Anthony Zinni
Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs. — P. J. O'Rourke
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. — Tammy Bruce
No group in American history has done a worse job running this country than the neo-liberals currently in charge. They are vicious, they are intolerant, and they are utterly corrupt. But, above all, they are incompetent. — Tucker Carlson
Ineptitude Quotes
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. — John Barth
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work. — Cindy Sherman
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office. — Sidney Blumenthal
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude. — Jessica Savitch
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude. — A. E. Housman
Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. — J. K. Rowling
The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about. — Gerald Celente
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? — Tony Kushner
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude. — Bette Greene
If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place — Attila the Hun
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. — Mencius
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
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. — William Stewart Halsted
Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless.
But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority. — Paulo Coelho
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. — John Kenneth Galbraith
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 Foster Bass
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
The effects of the legacy media and Big Tech promote clear psychological manipulation, which has deeply distorted public-health policy. The Davos oligarchs have demonstrated their gross incompetence to all the world over the last two years. I sincerely believe that we can break through the effects of the madness of crowds, the mass formation. — Robert W. Malone
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. — Charles Sorenson
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. — Charles E. Sorensen
Develop ‘strategic incompetence’ – people won’t ask you to do things you hate to do, if you’re bad at them. — Naval Ravikant
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building. — Jane Jacobs
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly — Harry Reasoner
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
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany. — Carl Paladino
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence. — Upton Sinclair
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:
1st - When they are neglected in infancy
2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.
3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour. — Robert Owen
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. — Jim Babka
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
Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement. — James Cook
Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I. — Wilhelm Keitel
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. — Charles Krauthammer
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