Quotes By Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

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

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

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

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

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