Quotes By Laurence J. Peter

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

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

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

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

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

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

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

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

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

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

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

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

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.

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

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