Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
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
Difference
Differences
Sound
Work
Good
Motives
Outcome
Outcomes
Motive
More quotes by Laurence J. Peter
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Laurence J. Peter
Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
Laurence J. Peter
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Laurence J. Peter
I inherited my ability from both parents my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
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
. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
Laurence J. Peter
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Laurence J. Peter
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
Laurence J. Peter
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
Laurence J. Peter
do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
Laurence J. Peter
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
Laurence J. Peter
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Laurence J. Peter
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
Laurence J. Peter
The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
Laurence J. Peter
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
Laurence J. Peter
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
Laurence J. Peter
