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Laurence J. Peter [1919-1990] Canadian

Rank: 101
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Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.	Anger, Best	101
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.	Beauty, Truth	102
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.	Best, Intelligence	103
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.	Work	104
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.	Art, Funny	105
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.	Beauty, Nature, Time	106
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.		107
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.		108
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.	Car	109
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.	Time	110
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?	Funny	111
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.	Funny	112
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.	Leadership	113
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.	Funny	114
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.	Patience	115
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.	Friendship	116
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.	Relationship	117
When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.		118
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.		119
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.	Business	120
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.		121
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.	Wisdom	122
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.		123
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.	Brainy	124
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.		125
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.		126
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.		201
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.		202
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.		203
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.		204
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.	Teen	205
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.		206
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.	Chance	207
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.	Technology	208
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.		209
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.	Intelligence	210
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.	Government	211
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.		212
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.		213
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.	Failure	214
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.		215
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.		216
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.		217
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.		218
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.		219
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?		220
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.		221
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.		222

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