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Laurence J Peter Inspirational Quotes (76)

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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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I inherited my ability from both parents my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
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The unexpected always happens.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
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A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
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A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
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Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
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There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
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