Laurence J. Peter

It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.

— Laurence J. Peter

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

— Laurence J. Peter

do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.

— Laurence J. Peter

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

— Laurence J. Peter

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

— Laurence J. Peter

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

— Laurence J. Peter

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.

— Laurence J. Peter

“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

— Laurence J. Peter

The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

— Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

— Laurence J. Peter

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

— Laurence J. Peter

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

— Laurence J. Peter

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

— Laurence J. Peter

“a staff increase may produce a temporary improvement, but the promotion process eventually produces its effect on the newcomers and they, too,…

— Laurence J. Peter

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and…

— Laurence J. Peter

“As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better,…

— Laurence J. Peter

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to…

— Laurence J. Peter

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

— Laurence J. Peter

“All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot…

— Laurence J. Peter

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of…

— Laurence J. Peter

You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly…

— Laurence J. Peter

“in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.” He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are…

— Laurence J. Peter

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do…

— Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied…

— Laurence J. Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental counduct produces power for change…

— Laurence J. Peter

The unexpected always happens.

— Laurence J. Peter

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

— Laurence J. Peter

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

— Laurence J. Peter

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

— Laurence J. Peter

Ignorance is the mother of research.

— Laurence J. Peter

Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.

— Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

— Laurence J. Peter

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

— Laurence J. Peter

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

— Laurence J. Peter