Laurence J. Peter
Canadian educator and hierarchiologist
Lived from: 1919 - 1990
Category: Scientists Country: Canada
Born: 16 september 1919 Died: 12 january 1990
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
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