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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
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We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
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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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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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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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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
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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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Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
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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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. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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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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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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