Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Laurence Johnston Peterwas a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 September 1919
CountryCanada
age way symptoms
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
business levels hierarchy
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
intelligent intelligence tests
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
kindness men boys
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
funny men experts
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
funny-work boss levels
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
education school prejudice
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
inspirational life encouraging
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
perfect faults literature
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
inspirational dog hands
Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
land america taxes-funny
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
warning painful spite
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
funny business future
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
true-friend
A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.