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Work is done by those [employees] who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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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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Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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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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In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Do not be fooled by apparent exceptions.
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Lateral Arabesque—a pseudo-promotion consisting of a new title and a new work place.
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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence
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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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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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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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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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