Quotes About Incompetence

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

The criminal resembles the artist in his pretension, his incompetence, and his self-pity.

La violenza è l'ultimo rifugio degli incapaci.

A person can be utterly incompetent and yet dazzlingly confident. What's more, this same person can know how incompetent they are and still be just as confident. Confidence has nothing to do with ability.

I hate incompetence. I think it's probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn't make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary.

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

I am apparently not very good at looking after things.

Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.

How the hell are you idiots allowed to run a country? I should have voted for a clown college. They'd at least have a reason for being this stupid.

What have they done to your poor arm?' - Holly 'Oh, don't worry, it's just a graze.' - Lucy 'I'm talking about the bandages. That's simply the most incompetent bit of first aid I've ever seen. Lockwood, George - how much dressing did you use?

We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of ten, conspirators behaved like buffoons and wound up exposing themselves out of sheer, bumbling incompetence.

an idiot with delusions of military adequacy, but I expected better from the Guards. Not much, but a little.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-described socialist who caucused with the Democrats, seemed to see the world as a vast conspiracy of big corporations and the wealthy. (Corporations and the wealthy have lots of power, certainly, but in the real world most bad things happen because of ignorance, incompetence, or bad luck, not as the result of grand conspiracies.)

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That's my problem.

Doing nothing, badly.

Their belligerence in public places, their rudeness…there's almost a pride in ignorance here. Black employees refuse to wait on white customers in stores. They treat incompetence as though it's some kind of act of civil disobedience. I'm sick of it, Penn.

We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.