Quote: Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Man cannot live by incompetence alone. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: A 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: A man convinced against his will is not convinced. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. [Laurence J. Peter]
Quote: Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. [Laurence J. Peter]