# Opening: Why 70% of people are incompetent

- **Episode:** [193](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/193.md) (2025-05-01)
- **Type:** interview
- **Tags:** incompetence, workplace, performance
- **Time:** 0:00–1:01 (start 0s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/193?t=0](https://truthliesandwork.com/193?t=0)

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[0:00] Nick Huber: 70% of people in this world are totally incompetent. And the sooner you realize that as a business owner or a manager or a leader, the faster you can accelerate your career and your business. Another sad truth in this world is that a huge chunk of our population, they get ahead by either being immoral or abusing mentally or emotionally. I've had the blessing of having all these Twitter followers now for 5+ years, and I've started to hear their stories about how they made their money, what mistakes they've made. If you make decisions slowly, you are asking your top performers to leave. But if you tolerate and surround those A players with B players and C players and people who are low performing, your A players are going to be gone. Anywhere I go, I'm hunting. Whether it's a bartender at a bar, they're slinging drinks, they're moving quick, they're efficient. Same thing at enterprise car rental. When you just see the madness happening and this one guy or gal is like taking charge, you can find these folks and you can hire them and you can hunt them. I also love hiring teachers. Teachers are amazing because if you can lead 35-year-olds, you can sure as hell lead 35-year-olds