~ A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~
~ Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. ~
~ A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. ~
~ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~
~ Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~
~ I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. ~
~ Avoid competency traps.
Do not stay only where
you are good at things,
Go out and be challenged. ~
~ The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ~
~ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~
~ A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. ~
~ 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. ~
~ I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. ~