Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.