Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed....
Show MoreSometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeci...
Show MoreEvery girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a...
Show MoreFacts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen...
Show MoreWhen I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a...
Show MoreCompetence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
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.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought ...
Show MoreMiddle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
