Laurence J. Peter Quotes

the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.

He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

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

Incompetence,” he argued, “knows no barrier of time or place.

Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk.

the ability to charm, to amuse, to inflame a crowd of ten thousand voters with voice and gesture did not necessarily carry with it the ability to think sensibly, to debate soberly and to vote wisely on the nation’s business.

If man is going to rescue himself from a future intolerable existence, he must first see where his unmindful escalation is leading him. He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence

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

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

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

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

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