Laurence J. Peter

"A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out. "

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. "

"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. "

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

"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. "

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. "

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. "

"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. "

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. "

"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. "

"Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. "

"Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. "

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. "

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. "

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. "

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk "

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

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

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. "

"It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. "

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. "

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. "

"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. "

"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. "

"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. "

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. "

"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. "

"The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. "

"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. "

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

"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. "