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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somewhere
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
anymore christian church garage
Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.
retirement fun age
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
humility two kind
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
true-friend
A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
warning painful spite
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
healing thinking conflict
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
literature world slumps
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
irs taxation tests
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form
writing reputation publishers
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
kindness men boys
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
competence mess stills
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
laughing lasts humour
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
speech dictator print
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.