Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.