17 quotes
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Peter's Almanac (1982)
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle (1969)
On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
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.
The Peter Principle (1969)
The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.
Laurence J. Peter (1969)
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Do not be fooled by apparent exceptions.
The Peter Principle (1969)
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.
The Peter Principle (1969)
Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth. But the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.
The Peter Principle (1969)