Quotes by Laurence J. Peter
The following are quotes from Laurence J. Peter:
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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.
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
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.
Add to:
