Laurence J. Peter Hierarchy Quotations

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.