13 Dr. Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Dr. Laurence J. Peter quotes

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

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

3. Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.

4. When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

5. Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

6. Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.

7. In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

8. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

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9. The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.

10. The noblest dog is the hot dog. It feeds the hand that bites it.

1. Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.

2. Love is not a force between a mind and a body, but a force between two hearts. Your mind and eyes will never tell you when you feel true love, for only your heart can recieve the true love that another heart sends directly to it.

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