Laurence J. Peter

“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”

“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.”

“Seorang yang kompeten dalam level tertentu belum tentu kompeten pada level berikutnya”

“America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.”

“It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.”

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

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

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

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

“Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.”

“The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.”

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought”

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

“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”

“The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.”

“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”

“Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.”

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

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”

“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

“Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.”

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.”

“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.”

“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”