In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. - Laurence J. Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.

an employee’s relationship — by blood, marriage or acquaintance — with a person above him in the hierarchy.