Quotes About Incompetence

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!" While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev

Margaret Thatcher may have destroyed the Conservative Party but she must be credited with the salvation and re-birth of Labour. In the short-run, of course, she crushed her Labour opponents—indeed, she could not have wrought the changes she did but for their stunning incompetence. While some Labour Party leaders in 1979 understood the problems they faced, they could carry neither conviction nor their supporters.

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

Third basic law of human stupidity: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring loss.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.'fn1

In 2001 came the announcement that shocked the corporate world. Enron—the corporate poster child, the company of the future—had gone belly-up. What happened? How did such spectacular promise turn into such a spectacular disaster? Was it incompetence? Was it corruption? It was mindset.

I can't cook. I use a smoke alarm as a timer.

self-justification momentarily protects us from feeling clumsy, incompetent, or forgetful. The kind that can erode a marriage, however, reflects a more serious effort to protect not what we did but who we are, and it comes in two versions: "I'm right and you're wrong" and "Even if I'm wrong, too bad; that's the way I am.

Can't anybody here play this game?

Plea to the early 1960's NY Mets. "Can't anyone here play this game?

Mister, that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

Relying on theft and deceit is an unconscious admission of incompetence.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence

La brujería es la salsa que vierten los idiotas sobre el fracaso para ocultar el sabor de su incompetencia" -Tyrion Lannister

Typical of the medical profession,' said Larry bitterly. 'They can't even spot a disease until the patient is twice life size.

Don't ask. We're all but done for in any case, taking that Fiona couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo, and Paddy and Maureen both cheat like tinkers at a fair. What are you talking about? Why would anybody hit a cow with a banjo? He only smiled. The point is, Fiona couldn't so we'll be done soon enough.

He couldn't lead himself out of a room made of doors.

brains of a bag of wet mice

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

She was also incapacitated by much of daily life and had 'no aptitude whatsoever' for domesticity.