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Laurence J. Peter
Canada
16 Sep 1919 // 12 Jan 1990
Educator, Author
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On Enterprise:
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
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On Competence:
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
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On Enterprise:
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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On Competence:
Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.
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On Failure:
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
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On Intelligence:
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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On Enterprise:
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at becoming incompetent.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
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On Success:
If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
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On Enterprise:
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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