Laurence J. Peter quote: "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."

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a 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...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for inc...
LAURENCE J. PETER

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeci...
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

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be und...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
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...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
LAURENCE J. PETER

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
LAURENCE J. PETER

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard 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

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
LAURENCE J. PETER

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laure...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
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

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
LAURENCE J. PETER

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
LAURENCE J. PETER

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you&#...
LAURENCE J. PETER

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
LAURENCE J. PETER

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the sheph...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for ...
LAURENCE J. PETER

A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than ...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something...
LAURENCE J. PETER

An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happe...
LAURENCE J. PETER

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
LAURENCE J. PETER

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
LAURENCE J. PETER

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
LAURENCE J. PETER

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
LAURENCE J. PETER

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
LAURENCE J. PETER

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
LAURENCE J. PETER

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
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

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
LAURENCE J. PETER

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen...
LAURENCE J. PETER

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record get...
LAURENCE J. PETER

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
LAURENCE J. PETER

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour...
LAURENCE J. PETER

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Man’s First Mistake: The Wheel
LAURENCE J. PETER

Such an extreme policy will not be generally tolerated. So, to avoid the accumulation of incompetent...
LAURENCE J. PETER

In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence
LAURENCE J. PETER

The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent—or promotion ad infinit...
LAURENCE J. PETER

La supercompetencia conduce a menudo al despido, porque transtorna la jerarquía y viola con ello el...
LAURENCE J. PETER

La competencia de un empleado no es determinada por los extraños, sino por su superior en la jerarq...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Given enough time—and assuming the existence of enough ranks in the hierarchy—each employee rise...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Incompetence,” he argued, “knows no barrier of time or place.
LAURENCE J. PETER

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed....
LAURENCE J. PETER

Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Reason’s whole ...
LAURENCE J. PETER

an employee’s relationship—by blood, marriage or acquaintance—with a person above him in the h...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make i...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Seorang yang kompeten dalam level tertentu belum tentu kompeten pada level berikutnya
LAURENCE J. PETER

The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No...
LAURENCE J. PETER

In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.
LAURENCE J. PETER

He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a be...
LAURENCE J. PETER

All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are ne...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter’s Paradox): they merely gossi...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push and you push alone.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Three Observations 1) The computer may be incompetent in itself—that is, unable to d...
LAURENCE J. PETER

a staff increase may produce a temporary improvement, but the promotion process eventually produces ...
LAURENCE J. PETER

As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and ...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucr...
LAURENCE J. PETER

in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.” He warned that ext...
LAURENCE J. PETER

Good followers do not become good leaders.
LAURENCE J. PETER

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
LAURENCE J. PETER

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
LAURENCE J. PETER

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
LAURENCE PETER

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I con...
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
DR LAURENCE J PETER

Ever since man invented the wheel, he has been the confused victim of the miracles he has wrought.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

As a matter of fact, is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the sheph...
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought...
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus dri...
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record get...
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

The only problems money can solve are money problems
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Many live by their wits but few by their wit
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of th...
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be und...
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any busin...
LAURENCE J. MCGINLEY

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in v...
LAURENCE PETER (1919—1990)

When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
LAWRENCE J. PETER

The key is to focus on the details of individual lives. Kids imitate one another, their parents, and...
PETER J. RICHERSON

Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by ...
PETER J. RICHERSON

Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall...
PETER J. TOMASI

Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you ...
PETER J. CARROLL

A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.
PETER J. WETZELAER

It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change ...
PETER J. CARROLL

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of s...
PETER J. CARROLL

(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, disciplin...
PETER J. CARROLL

There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful ...
PETER J. CARROLL

Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?

Have you declared yourself enlightened...
PETER J. CARROLL

And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, 'Tell us, whe...
PETER J. TANOUS

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to co...
LAURENCE FOX

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the hom...
LAURENCE TRIBE

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside...
LAURENCE YEP

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or pro...
LAURENCE TRIBE

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
LAURENCE STERNE

When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's le...
LAURENCE STERNE

Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, Leave things of the future to fate; What's the use to an...
LAURENCE STERNE

These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.
LAURENCE STERNE

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.
LAURENCE STERNE

He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble.
LAURENCE STERNE

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their title...
LAURENCE STERNE

Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. How...
LAURENCE YEP

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON

Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatu...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE

Look into the world
LAURENCE STERNE

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE

'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE

When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE

Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE

So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
LAURENCE STERNE

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