Laurence J. Peter
Canada
16 Sep 1919 // 12 Jan 1990
Educator, Author
16 Sep 1919 // 12 Jan 1990
Educator, Author
Quotes
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at becoming incompetent.
If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays