Laurence J. Peter Quotes

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• A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Laughter, Men

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• There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Believe, Good Luck, Expectations

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

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  Inspirational, Dog, Hands

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.53, Harper Collins

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• Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Birthday, Worry, Age

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Wise, Remember, Fooled

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• Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Prejudice, World, Saving

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• May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Happiness, Sadness, Blessing

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• In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Business, Levels, Hierarchy

  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969)

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• The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Government, Hierarchy, Incompetence

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

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  Business, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.

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• Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Egypt, Moses, Stills

  Laurence J. Peter (1986). “The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?”, William Morrow

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• A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Cat, Dark, Men

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• My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

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  Healing, Thinking, Problem

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• The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Temptation, Another Chance, May

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• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

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  Funny, Business, Future

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• A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Speech, Dictator, Print

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• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

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  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Tired, Age, Middle

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• Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Retirement, Fun, Age

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  Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

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  Funny, Girl, Mother

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Beauty, Truth, Work

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”

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• America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

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  Land, America, Taxation

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Smart, Taken, Men

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