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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Laurence J. Peter
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Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
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May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
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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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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
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When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
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