Quotes by Laurence J Peter

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

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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the...

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its...

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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday...

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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to...

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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let...

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

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When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

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

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds,...

#Laurence J Peter