Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Prejudice
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Advertising
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Television
Reality is for people who can’t face drugs.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Reality
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Originality, Innovation
Don’t knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Wealth
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Effort
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Funny quotes, Women
If you don’t learn from your mistakes, There’s no point in making them.
—Laurence J. Peter
Two can live as cheaply as one – if they both have good jobs.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Jobs
‘As a matter of fact’ is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn’t.
—Laurence J. Peter
You can always tell a real friend; when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Friendship, Friends
If you don’t know where you’re going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Goals
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
—Laurence J. Peter
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Problems
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Logic, Ignorance
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Prejudice, Education
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Work
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Humility
If a cluttered desk is the sign of an cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Mind
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.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Imagination
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Democracy
If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Lies, Success, Success & Failure
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Bureaucracy
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
—Laurence J. Peter
Don’t believe in miracles—depend on them.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Miracles, Luck
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Decisions
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Bureaucracy, Power
Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Women, Feminism
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
—Laurence J. Peter
Topics: Adversity, Opportunity
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