Incompetence Quotes

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

Incompetence is the true crisis.

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Evil is a form of incompetence.

Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

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

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

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.

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

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

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.