Quotes about Unqualified Personnel

Song Baorui

The first problem is too many workers. The second problem is having fools and crooks as managers.

In the older Communist economy companies, profit was not required so companies hired many workers to provide employment for as many as possible. Under the newer economic system companies had to become efficient and profitable. But old traditions die hard.

Clark M. Clifford

You cannot bring inexperienced men ... into the government and expect the government to run well.

Jean Chretien

A lot of mistakes [in government] are made by people with little experience.

Garry Marshall

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

Franklin Foer

One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.

John McCarthy

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

John Stuart Mill

In all things of any difficulty and importance, those who can do them well are fewer than the need, even with the most unrestricted latitude of choice: and any limitation of the field of selection deprives society of some chances of being served by the competent, without ever saving it from the incompetent

Porter Goss

… a bunch of dysfunctional jerks … a pack of idiots

President George W. Bush appointed Goss as CIA Director after the made these and other derogatory statements about the CIA. This did not endear the new director to the CIA staff, and it was very difficult for a man to lead an organization for whose employees the man disrespected and insulted. Later Bush fired Goss.

Lewis D. Eigen

I have found in my years of working in the government than when I face a choice of explanations of venality or incompetence in explaining some government activities, it is almost always incompetence that explains it. It often appears to be venality because we do not realize how incompetent government and large private organizations can be sometimes.

Jed Mercurio

Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm.

Charles W. Pickering

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Han Fei

A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail.

Jair Bolsonaro

I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.

Ingulphus

The English were so much abominated, that whatever their merit might be, they were deprived of all their offices, and strangers, though of inferior abilities, were put into their places.

William the Conqueror

Unqualified Personnel Quotes