Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

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

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

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

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