Laurence J. Peter Quotes

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

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

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

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.