Laurence J. Peter Quotes

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

Laurence J. Peter

Love, Life, Relationship

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

Laurence J. Peter

Work, Intelligent, Intelligence

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

Funny, Positive, Witty

"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

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

Laurence J. Peter

Temptation, Another Chance, May

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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

Laurence J. Peter

Humility, Two, Literature

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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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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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Born: September 16, 1919
Died: January 12, 1990
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