Laurence J. Peter Quotes
"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
(Related: Man)
"A man convinced against his will is not convinced."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Man, Will)
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Man)
"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Man)
"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Ignorance, Logic)
"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
(Related: America, Country)
"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: America, Land, Taxation)
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)
"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Intelligence, Man)
"As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Expression, Fact)
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Time, Bureaucracy, Past)
"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Failure, Content, Question)
"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Faults)
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Art, Originality)
"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Faults, Parents, Psychiatry)
"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: World)
"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Problems)
"Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Regret, Speech)
"Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Men, Women, Incompetence, Now)
"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Intelligence, Leisure)
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Man, Poor)
"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Competence, Eye)
"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Sheep, Wounds)
"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Work)
"When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Danger, Doubt)
"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Work, Employees, Incompetence)
"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
(Related: Fool, Job)
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Sea, Water, Wishes)
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: American, Force, Television)
"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Education)
"There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Rest)
"Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Reputation, Will)
"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Work, Bed, Hell)
"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Opportunity, Being, Chance, Will)
"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Nature, Time, Mother, Father)
"Everyone rises to their level of incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Incompetence)
"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Man)
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Fortune, Misfortune, Patience)
"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."
- Laurence J. Peter
"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Heredity, Parents)
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Mind)
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Right, Wrongs)
"If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: End, Will)
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Incompetence)
"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Car, Christian, Church)
"Don't believe in miracles - depend on them."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Miracles)
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
- Laurence J. Peter