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.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.
It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?