Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.
As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.