Laurence J. Peter Quotes - Page 2

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

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

The unexpected always happens.

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

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

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

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.

A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world