Frankly, I am shocked at the complete level of…

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an…

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.

— Laurence J. Peter

“classic example of the Peter Principle at work. Walder had successfully risen to the level of his incompetence.”

— Blake Pierce

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…

— Jimmy Breslin

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero.

— Peter Jacobson

I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.

— Chris Murphy

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

— C. S. Lewis

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

— Masha Gessen

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are…

— Matt LeBlanc

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,…

— Anthony Zinni

You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live!

— Anonymous

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

— H. L. Mencken