Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
