Inspirational Quotations

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

Laurence Johnston Peter (1919–90) was a Canadian educator and “hierarchiologist”, best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and began his career as a teacher in Vancouver in 1941. He received the degree of Doctor of Education from Washington State University in 1963.

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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Prejudice

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

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

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

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Originality, Innovation

Don’t knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Wealth

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Effort

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Laurence J. Peter

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

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

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Prejudice, Education

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

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Humility

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

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.
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Imagination

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Democracy

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

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

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

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

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

Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Women, Feminism

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

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