Tag: Laurence J. Peter
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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.
Laurence J. Peter
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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If you don’t know where you’re going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Laurence J. Peter