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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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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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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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