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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• 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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• . . . 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Intelligent, Intelligence

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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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• 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 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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• do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Law, May, Tomorrow

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

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Temptation, Another Chance, May

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