Incompetence Quotes

“The doctor was clueless!”

— Steven Magee

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

“...incompetence is context specific.”

— Sam Sommers

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

— Jonathan Alter

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

— Charlotte Whitton

“History rhymes, incompetence repeats itself.”

— Baimungi

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

— John Perry Barlow

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

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

— John Olver

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Julian Assange

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

— Jimmy Page

The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W.…

— James Carville

“I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality…

— Raymond Hull

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

— Peter Drucker

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which…

— Douglas Adams

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

— Burt Prelutsky

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

— Anonymous

The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and…

— Bill Foster

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose…

— Femi Fani-Kayode

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

— Matt LeBlanc

“Incompetence has one other advantage. Not only does it reduce what others expect and demand of you, it reduces what you expect…

— John Holt

This is a great nation at terrible risk in a dangerous world, and she has fully exposed this nation and will continue…

— Rush Limbaugh

The more closed the circle, the more difficult it is for 'outsiders' to break in. Their very difficulty in entering may be…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.” He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are…

— Laurence J. Peter

I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence of which there is so much. No sympathy for leaders who…

— Donald Trump

Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know…

— Geneva Overholser

I don't think either party has any idea what's headed their way. Their business is to remain mired in process. They call…

— Rush Limbaugh

“According to Mark 11:12-13, God's messengers were not the only ones who were incompetent: 'He [Jesus] was hungry. And on seeing in…

— G.M. Jackson

We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents,…

— Tony Benn

I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on…

— Andrew Sullivan

There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you make a chair, you want to make a nice…

— Hal Hartley

In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but…

— Anonymous

It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds…

— Frank Zappa