Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings. – Laurence J. Peter
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. – Laurence J. Peter
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. – Laurence J. Peter
America is a country that doesn’t know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. – Laurence J. Peter
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. – Laurence J. Peter
Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car. – Laurence J. Peter
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. – Laurence J. Peter
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. – Laurence J. Peter
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. – Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. – Laurence J. Peter
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. – Laurence J. Peter
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? – Laurence J. Peter