An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter

Dr. Peter observed that one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required to do the job itself. The skills required to run a great political campaign have little to do with the skills required to govern.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.