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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The unexpected always happens.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Unexpected, Happens

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• There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Decision, Bad Decision, Stigma

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

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Happiness, Sadness, Blessing

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• Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Laughter, Two, Prejudice

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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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• 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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• 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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• Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Humility, People, Wonderful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Armor

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Temptation, Another Chance, May

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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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