Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Quote by Dr Laurence J Peter

Topics: Opportunity Quotes

Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage...

Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage...

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who...

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who...

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of...

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of...

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who...

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who...

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how...

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how...

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard...

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard...

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own...

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own...

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such...

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such...