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
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The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.
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Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.
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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.
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When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.