About
Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
Quotes from Laurence J. Peter
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
"There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.