Laurence J. Peter Quotes

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Business, Intelligent, Thinking

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

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• . . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Differences, Advice, Needs

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.44, Harper Collins

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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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• The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Kindness, Integrity, Boys

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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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• Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Wise, Business, Men

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Business, Future

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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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• The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Distance, Men, Judging

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• In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Hierarchy, Incompetence

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

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• If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confusion

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 333, 1977.

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• In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Warning, Painful, Spite

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• It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Men

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Healing, Thinking, Problem

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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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