“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.”
Elbert Hubbard
“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
“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
“Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.”
George V. Higgins
“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
Billy Joel