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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Dog, Hands

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• . . . 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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• Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Reality, People, Drug

  Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Temptation, Another Chance, May

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• Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

  DR. LAURENCE J. PETER (1972). “THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT”

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• The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Names, Doe, Pay

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• Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Political, Credit, Politics

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Land, America, Taxation

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

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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