Incompetence Quotes

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard

Home, Ignorance, America

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Malice, Explained, Ascribe

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.
Richard Dawkins

Science, Ignorance, Become

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

Father, Understand, Either

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

Family, Hate, Two

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

Work, Level, Employees

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel

Age, Said, Makes

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

Rise, Level, Employee

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

Evil, Understand, Office

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
James Cash Penney

Last, Luck, Laziness

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.
Rush Limbaugh

Best, Against, Fair

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

Everyone, Level, Rises

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

Women, Men, Share

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.
Billy Joel

Age, Business, Crazy

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.
Roberto Cavalli

Mind, Sometimes, Keep

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis

Become, Laziness, Journalism

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Charlotte Whitton

Alone, Live, Cannot

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.
Matt LeBlanc

Job, Find, Fact

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Dora Russell

Marriage, Human, Police

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
John Galliano

Women, Men, Problem

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

Politics, Future, Political

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

Technology, May, Fact

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
John Olver

Body, Almost, Level

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.
Sherrod Brown

Mistake, Tax, Wild

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
Margaret Carlson

Love, Good, Money

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
Marge Piercy

War, Dinner, Burning

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
Malcolm Wallop

Utter, Literally

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Charles F. Bass

Anyone, System, Four

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

War, True, Corruption

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