222 Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

Two can live as cheaply as one – if they both have good jobs.

The computer may be incompetent in itself – that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man’s ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn’t.

If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.

You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you’ve finished a long lasting job.

Given enough time – and assuming the existence of enough ranks in the hierarchy – each employee rises to, and remains at, his level of incompetence.

When I want your opinion I’ll give it to you.

If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.