Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.
In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
The unexpected always happens.
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.