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Laurence J. PeterFamous Laurence J. Peter Quotes
“If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 125
p. 44 http://books.google.com/books?id=W6bPGIL-_-8C&pg=PA44&dq=%22On+second+thought,+maybe+the+atheist%22: Sometimes misattributed to Francis Thompson, whose quote "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident" Peter was commenting on. <br class="br">Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
“Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.”
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 63
Laurence J. Peter Quotes about time
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
“The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 181
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 36 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011)
Laurence J. Peter Quotes
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 362
“Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence”
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 107 (The Mathematics of Incompetence)
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
p. 333 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7725710M/Peter's_Quotations <br class="br">Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Source: Peter's People and Their Marvelous Ideas
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 25: Statement of the Peter Principle
“Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.”
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 20 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011) " The Peter Principle: Is This Forty-Year-Old Universal Phenomenon in Decline or Growing? http://www.jgbm.org/page/1%20James%20Ike%20Schaap%20.pdf"
Entry for September 24; as quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, ISBN 0880297689, p. 78
Peter's Almanac (1982)
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 10: Introduction
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 418
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 38: This phenomenon is called by Peter "percussive sublimation", or "being kicked upstairs".
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 324
“In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.”
Laurence J. Peter (1969) in " Up against the Peter principle http://books.google.nl/books?id=K08EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59". LIFE - Vol. 67, nr. 3. July 18, 1969. p. 59
Lawrence Lipsitz, Editor (1973) The Process of Innovation in Education. p. 26
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