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| If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. -- Laurence J. Peter | |
| Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter | |
| Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- Laurence Peter | |
| The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. -- Laurence J. Peter | |
| Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter | |
| 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 ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle" | |
| In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter | |
| No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel -- anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions. -- Laurence J. Peter | |
| Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. -- Laurence J. Peter, "Peter's Principles" | |
