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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.
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In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence
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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
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Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth. But the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.
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Tact is the art of putting your foot down without stepping on anyone's toes.
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The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
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Lateral Arabesque—a pseudo-promotion consisting of a new title and a new work place.
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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.
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I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
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Laurence J. Peter
Born:
September 16, 1919
Died:
January 12, 1990
(aged 70)
Bio:
Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.
Known for:
PETER'S QUOTATIONS (1977)
The Peter Principle (1969)
The laughter prescription (1982)
Quotations for Our Time (1978)
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