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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
-Laurence
J. Peter
All useful work is done by individuals who haven't yet reached their
level of incompetence.
-Laurence J. Peter
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being
incompetent.
-Laurence J. Peter
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
-Laurence
J. Peter
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
-Laurence J.
Peter
In most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than
incompetence.
-Laurence J. Peter
An incompetent attorney can delay a trail for years or months. A
competent attorney can delay one even longer.
-Evelle J. Younger
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
-Marge Piercy
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment
by the corrupt few.
-George Bernard Shaw
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the
indifferent by the incompetent.
-John Maynard Keynes
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the
miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of
superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above
their betters.
-H.L. Mencken
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the
incompetent.
-General Curtis LeMay
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather
cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-John Cleese
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who
are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
-Maureen
Reagan
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
-Edith
Sitwell
Incompetence is a double-edged banana.
-John Perry Barlow
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing
incompetence.
-Kingsley Amis
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their
minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.
-Everett
Dirksen
Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt
administration is what the nation needs.
-P.J. O'Rourke
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by
incompetence.
-Robert J. Hanlon
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
-Robert A. Heinlein
One of the chief features of incompetence is an inability to see it in
oneself.
-Kim Stanley Robinson
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by
then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
-H.
Beam Piper
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of
public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan
service. (1885)
-Grover Cleveland
Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-Boies Penrose
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
-Quentin
Crisp
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these
are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence.
-Elbert Hubbard
The supreme crime of the church today is that everywhere and in all its
operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it
banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
-Upton
Sinclair
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson,
the Watergate of Nixon and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should
keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying
the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life
rafts.
-Eugene McCarthy
There's nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don't
have to do as much.
-Charles Manson
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than
Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro
honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
-W.E.B. DuBois
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-Isaac Asimov
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