Incompetent Quotes · Page 4

“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.”

— Glen Cook

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

— David Ogilvy

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

— Mark Latham

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

— Andrew Johnson

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

— Jane Smiley

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

— George Carlin

Incompetent and relentless are the worst combination of qualities.

— H. Jon Benjamin

I couldn't imagine a more incompetent politician than myself.

— Marc Benioff

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent…

— Michael Leunig

One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.

— Seth Godin

“Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.”

— Steven Magee

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

— John Cleese

EXCUSES ARE THE TOOLS OF INCOMPETENT THEY BUILD MONUMENTS OF NOTHINGNESS THOSE WHO DWELL UPON THEM ARE SELDOM GOOD FOR ANYTHING ELSE

— Loveleelatanya Kendrick

I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself…

— Gretchen Rubin

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of…

— Herbert Read

The many - and by the way, white, black, Asian, it covers everybody. Evangelicals, conservatives, Tea Partyers. Everybody has been hurt by…

— Donald Trump

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would…

— Brendan I. Koerner

just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy…

— Judith Crist

There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal?…

— Wilhelm Keitel

Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Because [Donald] Trump sticks to his script and was there to open his golf course, that's what he first began talking about.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.

— Steve Hilton

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

— Laurence J. Peter

I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

— Linus Torvalds

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

— Leon Jaworski

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

— William Feather

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

— Barack Obama

Knowledge is spread amongst all,i fear for the incompetent ignorants!

— Peete'Talksick Morbit' Mabindisa

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

— William Allen White

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.”

— Paul Adefarasin

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

— William Stewart Halsted

On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success,…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they're doing, we're always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they're going…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

— Liam Fox

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

— Frederick Forsyth

“An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.”

— Chris Everheart