Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Laurence Johnston Peterwas a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 September 1919
CountryCanada
business levels hierarchy
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
sorry said print
When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
business intelligent thinking
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
law may tomorrow
do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
jobs real long
You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.
school half lions
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.
age way symptoms
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
ideas paper cleaning
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
inspirational life encouraging
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
men discovery events
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.
inspirational dog hands
Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
men cost-of-living people
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
men literature way
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
hate people giving
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.