Top 227 Incompetence Quotes & Sayings

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Evil is a form of incompetence.

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

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

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and the United States. Almost everywhere there seems to me to be an increase in incompetence and general dishonesty. This is what I mean about democracy - you feel that you've got the ability to arrange things and influence matters and it's not quite so easy as that, I'm afraid.

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of work that one has established one cannot do. To these two must be joined, third, the nuttiness to believe that other people can be made to care about your opinions and views and be charmed by the way you state them. Incompetence, contempt, lunacy—once you have these in place, you are set to go.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

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

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.

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

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

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

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

I think her comments - Hillary's Clinton comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to a Gold Star mother. She lied to pre - Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who - who was killed at Benghazi, I believe, because of her incompetence, her incompetence in failing to secure that mission.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

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

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Incompetence is the true crisis.

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm.