Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Laurence J. Peter

Canadian Writer

Born: Sep 16, 1919

Died: Jan 12, 1990

He His Incompetence Man Will You

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If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. Laurence J. Peter

Funny Try Three Wrongs Make Right Two

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Laurence J. Peter

Funny Mind Sign Significance Clean Cluttered Desk

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

Work Employees Incompetence Those Reached Accomplished Who Level

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence Every Hierarchy Rise Tends Employee His Level

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. Laurence J. Peter

Man Brainy He Know Until Knows

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. Laurence J. Peter

Relationship Better Lost Laundry Week Pounds Than Loved Forty

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

Time Long Lost Past Defends Status Status Quo Bureaucracy Quo

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? Laurence J. Peter

Unless Faults Admit Perfect He Nobody How His

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter

You Will Somewhere Else Somewhere Else Know End Up Going Where

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. Laurence J. Peter

Ignorance Logic Like Armor Against

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. Laurence J. Peter

Great Failure You Failed Content Question Whether

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. Laurence J. Peter

Man Pessimist Ways Crosses Both Both Ways He Looks Who Street

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. Laurence J. Peter

Best Intelligence Our Test Leisure

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. Laurence J. Peter

Matter Fact Precedes Many Expression

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. Laurence J. Peter

Alone You World Slump Push

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. Laurence J. Peter

Rest Those Kinds Admit Us Who Two

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. Laurence J. Peter

Parents Our Faults Correct Enables Confessing Psychiatry Shortcomings Us

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