Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
Laurence J. Peter
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Laurence J. Peter
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Laurence J. Peter
Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Laurence J. Peter
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Laurence J. Peter
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Laurence J. Peter
Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Laurence J. Peter
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
Laurence J. Peter
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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
Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
Laurence J. Peter
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
Laurence J. Peter
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
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
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Laurence J. Peter
The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.
Laurence J. Peter
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
Laurence J. Peter
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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
Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter