Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Canadian - Writer | September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

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

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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

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When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

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

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If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

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

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

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

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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

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