“The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.”
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Famous Laurence J. Peter Quotes
“Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form”
“There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.”
“Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.”
“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.”
“Reality is for people who can't face drugs.”
Source: Peter's people
“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”
Source: THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG
“If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.”
“In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.”
Source: The Peter Principle
“Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.”
“The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.”
“It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.”
“Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.”
“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
“As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.”
“There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us”
“The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.”
“A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.”
“They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.”
“There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.”
Source: THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT
“Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.”
“A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.”
“A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.”
“As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.”
“Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.”
“Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.”