Laurence J. Peter Quotes

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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

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

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.

In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.

Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

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.