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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with L >> Quotes By Laurence J. Peter |
| Quote #1: | "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." |
| Quote #2: | "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." |
| Quote #3: | "Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone." |
| Quote #4: | "It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time." |
| Quote #5: | "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." |
| Quote #6: | "A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out." |
| Quote #7: | "Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." |
| Quote #8: | "There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." |
| Quote #9: | "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car." |
| Quote #10: | "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." |
| Quote #11: | "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." |
| Quote #12: | "Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." |
| Quote #13: | "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." |
| Quote #14: | "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." |
| Quote #15: | "An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it." |
| Quote #16: | "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." |
| Quote #17: | "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." |
| Quote #18: | "Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent." |
| Quote #19: | "Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor." |
| Quote #20: | "America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there." |
| Quote #21: | "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." |
| Quote #22: | "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." |
| Quote #23: | "Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret." |
| Quote #24: | "Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings." |
| Quote #25: | "If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk" |
| Quote #26: | "The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance." |
| Quote #27: | "Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." |
| Quote #28: | "The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it." |
| Quote #29: | "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence." |
| Quote #30: | "Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." |
| Quote #31: | "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe." |
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