Laurence J. Peter

You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

— Laurence J. Peter

The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

— Laurence J. Peter

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

— Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

— Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back…

— Laurence J. Peter

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

— Laurence J. Peter

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

— Laurence J. Peter

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

— Laurence J. Peter

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

— Laurence J. Peter

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

— Laurence J. Peter

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

— Laurence J. Peter