Quotes of Laurence J. Peter - somelinesforyou

“ Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ 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. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ 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. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ 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. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ 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. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ 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. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ It’s better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. ”

- Laurence J. Peter
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