Laurence J Peter quotes

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

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

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

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

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

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

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

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

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

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

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

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

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

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.

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