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Laurence J. Peter

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If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.


— Laurence J. Peter


#make #right #three #try #two

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.


— Laurence J. Peter


#intelligence #leisure #our #test

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.


— Laurence J. Peter


#failed #failure #great #question #whether

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.


— Laurence J. Peter


#halfway #judge #man #meet #poor

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.


— Laurence J. Peter


#push #slump #slumps #world #you

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.


— Laurence J. Peter


#always #done #feel #fool #friend

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.


— Laurence J. Peter


#know #knows #man #until

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.


— Laurence J. Peter


#art #fine #fine art #forgetting #hear

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


— Laurence J. Peter


#economist #expert #happen #know #predicted

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.


— Laurence J. Peter


#get #lead #out #way






About Laurence J. Peter






Did you know about Laurence J. Peter?

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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