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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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.
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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
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A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.