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do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.

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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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
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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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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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The unexpected always happens.
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Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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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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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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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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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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