All Laurence J. Peter Quotes
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
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