Laurence J. Peter

• "Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.“
• "Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.“
• "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.“
• "Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.“
• "The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.“
• "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.“
• "Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.“
• "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.“
• "The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.“
• "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.“
• "If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.“
• "A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.“
• "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.“
• "Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.“
• "An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.“
• "The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.“
• "Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.“
• "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.“
• "Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.“
• "Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.“
• "Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.“
• "Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.“
• "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.“
• "It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.“

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