Laurence J. Peter Quotes
An educator and management theorist best known for the Peter Principle - "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."
(1919 - 1990)
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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
[America]
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
[America]
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
[Business]
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
[Religion]
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Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
[Education]
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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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