Quotes By Laurence J. Peter

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

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

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

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

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

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

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

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

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

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

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

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

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

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