Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”

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

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“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.”

“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”

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

“The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the pl...”

“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”

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

“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”

“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”

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

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

“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”

“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”

“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”

“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”