Laurence J Peter Famous Quotes
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
"There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
"Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk"
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
"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."
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe."
Laurence J Peter Quotations
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right"
Charles M Schulz
"Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah"
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Noel Adams
"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty."
Simone Weil
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
Benjamin Stolberg
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Sir Walter Besant