Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence
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Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary.
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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.
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Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.
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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
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