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.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.