01UndatedSpeak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
02UndatedIf a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
04UndatedA censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
05UndatedAn intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
06UndatedMy problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
07UndatedYou can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
08UndatedBefore publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
09UndatedThe computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
10UndatedSometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
11UndatedAn economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
12UndatedThe problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
13UndatedMiddle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
14UndatedIn a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
16UndatedEgypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
19UndatedPsychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
20UndatedConscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
21UndatedOld age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
22UndatedThe cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
23UndatedWork is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
24UndatedThe great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Laurence J. Peter / quote ↗
