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Laurence J. Peter

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.


— Laurence J. Peter


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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.


— Laurence J. Peter


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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.


— Laurence J. Peter


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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.


— Laurence J. Peter


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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.


— Laurence J. Peter


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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?


— Laurence J. Peter


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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.


— Laurence J. Peter


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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.


— Laurence J. Peter


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Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.


— Laurence J. Peter


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When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.


— Laurence J. Peter


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About Laurence J. Peter






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It is a heavily quoted principle at the Marshall School of Business. in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. He became widely famous in 1968 on the publication of The Peter Principle in which he states: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16 1919 – January 12 1990) was an educator and "hierarchiologist" best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.

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