Laurence J. Peter Work Quotations

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.