(104 quotes found)
“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
“Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.”
Elbert Hubbard
“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 Kai-Shek
“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
“Incompetence - When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.”
Larry Kersten
“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.”
John Cleese
“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
Billy Joel
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
