Incompetence Quote by Laurence J. Peter

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

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You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

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The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

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It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

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Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.

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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

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He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

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A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

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Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

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An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

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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 thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that…

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“Expecting accountability from the UN system was akin to expecting a blind dog to catch a flying Frisbee.”

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

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Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's…

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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

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