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Famous Laurence J. Peter Quotes
“Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.”
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
“It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
“America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.”
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”
“A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.”
“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Source: The Peter Principle
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
“Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?”
“Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.”
“Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.”
“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
“Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.”
Source: THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG
“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”
“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”
“You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.”
“The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.”
Source: THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT
“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.”
“Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?”
“Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.”
“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”
“The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.”
“An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.”
“May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.”
“Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.”