Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
Laurence J. Peter
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
Laurence Peter
Men
Rush
Fools
Trade
Fool
Wise
Fear
Business
More quotes by Laurence J. Peter
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
Laurence J. Peter
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
Laurence J. Peter
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
Laurence J. Peter
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Laurence J. Peter
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
Laurence J. Peter
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
Laurence J. Peter
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
Laurence J. Peter
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
Laurence J. Peter
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
Laurence J. Peter
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
Laurence J. Peter
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
Laurence J. Peter
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
Laurence J. Peter
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
Laurence J. Peter
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.
Laurence J. Peter
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Laurence J. Peter
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
Laurence J. Peter