Inspirational Quotes by Laurence J. Peter (Canadian-born American Educator)

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Communication

Hereditary is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
—Laurence J. Peter

When I want your opinion I’ll give it to you.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Opinions, Opinion

‘As a matter of fact’ is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn’t.
—Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Bureaucracy, Power

If you don’t learn from your mistakes, There’s no point in making them.
—Laurence J. Peter

Don’t believe in miracles—depend on them.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Luck, Miracles

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Work

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
Topics: Speed

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Television

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Psychiatry

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can’t.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Beliefs

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Decisions

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Problems

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.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Friendship, Friends

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Ignorance, Logic

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Advertising

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Intelligence

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Ability

If a cluttered desk is the sign of an cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Mind

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Experts

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
—Laurence J. Peter

Reality is for people who can’t face drugs.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Reality

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Bureaucracy

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
—Laurence J. Peter

If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Lies, Success, Success & Failure

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Funny quotes, Women

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Opportunity, Adversity

If you don’t know where you’re going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Goals

Two can live as cheaply as one – if they both have good jobs.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Jobs

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