Laurence J. Peter

Who was Laurence J. Peter?

Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.

Famous Quotes:

• Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.
• Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
• Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
• Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
• Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
• If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
• In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
• Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?