Laurence J. Peter Quotes - Page 3

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• A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.

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  True Friend

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• The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

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  Government, Hierarchy, Incompetence

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• Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

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  Inspirational, Success, Positive Thinking

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• The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

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  Communication, Mean, Worry

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• There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

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  Decision, Bad Decision, Stigma

  DR. LAURENCE J. PETER (1972). “THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT”

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• If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

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  Work, Differences, Sound

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• Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

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  Humility, People, Wonderful

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• Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

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  Funny, Men, Experts

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• Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

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  Age, Generations, Middle

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• Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

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  School, Cages, Half

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• Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

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  Kindness, Integrity, Boys

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• You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

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  Choices, Selfishness, Being Selfish

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• A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

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  Speech, Dictator, Print

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• There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

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  Men, Fifty, Hyphens

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• We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

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  Hate, People, Giving

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

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  Work, Intelligent, Intelligence

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• Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

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  Work, Umpires, Levels

  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969)

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• When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

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  Giving, Interesting, Want

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• There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

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  Pretty Woman, Photograph

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.

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  Two, People, Angry

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

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  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

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• An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

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  Dream, Nightmare, Possibility

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• 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.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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• Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

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  Work, Opportunity, Men

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• We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

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  Climbing, Order, Energy

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