Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.”

“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.”

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”

“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”

“Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.”

“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.”

“America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.”

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

“Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.”

“It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

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

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

“Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.”

“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.”

“Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.”

“He laughs best whose laugh lasts.”

“When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.”

“Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.”