Laurence J. Peter Quotes
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No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.
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If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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Many live by their wits but few by their wit.
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.
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Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
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The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
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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.
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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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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.
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