Dr. Laurence J. Peter Quotes

• In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
• Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
• When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
• Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
• Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.
• In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
• Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
• The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.
• The noblest dog is the hot dog. It feeds the hand that bites it.

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