Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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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.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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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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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
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A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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