80 Quotes About Incompetence

He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

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

Amateur: A person willing to play the game only if he/she can win everytime.

Never give a clown too many balls to juggle

[H]e was one of those people who got to the top of an organisation through luck, connections, the indulgence of superiors and that sort of carelessness towards others that the easily impressed termed ruthlessness and those of a less gullible nature called sociopathy. But sometimes, just through his sheer unthinking brusqueness and inability to think through the consequences of a remark, he said what everybody else was only thinking. A comic poet working in obscene doggerel.

I was definitely incapable of solving the smallest problem without someone's help; my parents were right. I felt like slapping myself.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.