Incompetence Quotes - Page 5

• When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, God, Jobs

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Degrees, Firsts, Murder

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• America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Once we start rolling, we're pretty formidable. And the incompetence of the government is so massive that even a moderately good executive could regain much ground pretty rapidly. Donald Trump is a very good executive.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Brother, Government

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Hierarchy

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). "El principio de Peter"

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• 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.

  Chris Alexander

  Organization, Principles, Promotion

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• 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.

  Colin Dexter

  Mean, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: strandmag.com

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• El desgobierno es de cuatro tipos, a menudo combinados. Son: 1) la tiranía o la opresión, de la que la historia ofrece tantos ejemplos bien conocidos que no es necesario citarlos; 2) la ambición desmedida, como el intento de conquista de Sicilia por Atenas en la Guerra del Peloponeso, el de Inglaterra por Felipe II con la Armada, el doble intento de Alemania de dominar Europa mediante una raza superior autoconcebida, el intento de Japón de establecer un imperio en Asia; y 3) la incompetencia o la decadencia, como en el caso del imperio romano tardío, los últimos Romanov y la última dinastía imperial china; 3) incompetencia o decadencia, como en el caso del imperio romano tardío, los últimos Romanov y la última dinastía imperial de China; y finalmente 4) locura o perversidad.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Guerra, Ambición, Raza

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). "La marcha de la locura: De Troya a Vietnam", p.11, Crux Publishing Ltd.

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• ¿Cuáles son los caracteres que discierno más claramente en el llamado tipo de hombre anglosajón? Puedo responder de inmediato que dos sobresalen por encima de todos los demás. Uno es su curiosa y aparentemente incurable incompetencia: su incapacidad congénita para hacer cualquier cosa difícil con facilidad y bien, ya sea aislar un bacilo o escribir una sonata. La otra es su asombrosa susceptibilidad a los miedos y las alarmas: en resumen, su cobardía hereditaria. .... No hay constancia en la historia de ninguna nación anglosajona que haya entrado en una gran guerra sin aliados.

  H. L. Mencken

  Guerra, Escritura, Carácter

  H.L. Mencken (2012). "Mencken Chrestomathy", p.173, Vintage

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• The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Government, Hierarchy, Machinery

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• Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Obscurity, Refuge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.305, Penguin

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Insulting, Religion

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• A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the duty and the obligation not to work 'silently', but to stand up openly against the evil and for its cure. If he does not do so then he is a faithless, miserable weakling who fails either from cowardice or from laziness and incompetence....Every last agitator who possesses the courage to defend his opinions with manly forth-rightness, standing on a tavern table among his adversaries, accomplishes more than a thousand of these lying, treacherous sneaks.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Lying, Eye, Men

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• Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

  James Cook

  Government, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• Al explicar cualquier fenómeno desconcertante de Washington, elija siempre la estupidez frente a la conspiración, la incompetencia frente a la astucia. Cualquier otra cosa les da demasiado crédito.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Giving, Stupidity, Credit

  "Pelosi's Armenian gambit". jewishworldreview.com. October 19, 2007.

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• Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

  James Cook

  Government, Quota, Embrace

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• The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

  Peter Drucker

  Play, People, Focus

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• We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Struggle, Ordinary

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.169, Penguin

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

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Tree, Doe, Hanging On

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• If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Errors, Imagination, Substitutes

  Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.19, Vintage

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• Escribir es el único oficio que conozco en el que las confesiones lloriqueantes de incompetencia extrema se toman como credenciales probatorias de poderes para asombrar a la multitud.

  George V. Higgins

  Taken, Writing, Confession

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• Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.

  Geneva Overholser

  Thinking, Offending, Editors

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• I don't think either party has any idea what's headed their way. Their business is to remain mired in process. They call it deliberation, thoughtful, reasonable deliberation. Trump doesn't know any of that. Trump is not a process guy. To him, process is delay. Process is obfuscation. Process is incompetence. People engaging in process are a bunch of people masking the fact they don't know what they're doing, and he has no time for 'em and no patience.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Levels, Firsts

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

  Brian Ross

  Government, Scams, Charity

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• En una jerarquía cada empleado tiende a ascender a su nivel de incompetencia ... con el tiempo cada puesto tiende a ser ocupado por un empleado incompetente para desempeñar sus funciones ... El trabajo lo realizan aquellos empleados que aún no han alcanzado su nivel de incompetencia.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Business, Levels, Hierarchy

  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969)

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