The problem with the Peter Principle is that it assumes somebody somewhere is competent in the first place. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
“For some authorities it isn't that they're evil - or even that they're incompetent - but rather they just don't care enough;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The more skill it takes to accomplish a task, the more difficult it is to comprehend the knowledge needed to deal with… — Luigina Sgarro Copy Share Image
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. — Rands Copy Share Image
The incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we've never seen is a bad thing. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and… — Jesse Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“I hate incompetence. I think it’s probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn’t make me want to rule people.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be,… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Few in Europe imagined the incompetence and dishonesty of Greek economic managers would bring the entire European project into question. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I got fired seven or eight times before I was 32. And of those seven or eight times, I got fired not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I guess working in the legitimate industry, the best thing you can take away from it is acceptance of the incompetence that… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that the president's (Bush) leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
“The only thing I feel to be really mine is a huge incapacity, a vast emptiness, an incompetence for everything that is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In other words, the Regent was to be informed that his Captain had been well and truly turned off, in a manner… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and… — Soong May-ling Copy Share Image
On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“A fingerpost indicates that this path leads to Abercynafon, which is not on or even close to the route of Beacons Way,… — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think her comments - Hillary's Clinton comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“Here lies the separation of stupidity and incompetence. If you’re stupid, you just didn’t understand what happened and then make adjustments. If… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Miranda Priestly: Details of your incompetence do not interest me. — The Devil Wears Prada Copy Share Image