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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
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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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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
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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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Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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The unexpected always happens.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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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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There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
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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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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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