Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter Famous Quotes & Sayings
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
An employee's relationship - by blood, marriage or acquaintance - with a person above him in the hierarchy.
The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
Given enough time - and assuming the existence of enough ranks in the hierarchy - each employee rises to, and remains at, his level of incompetence.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence.
I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.
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.