Laurence J. Peter

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Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 1990), educator and management theorist, creator of the Peter Principle.

Sourced

• In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
  • known as the Peter Principle
  • Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time, p. 125<ref name="pq">Peter, Laurence J. Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time. 1977. ISBN 0688032176.</ref>

• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
  • Peter's Quotations, p. 83<ref name="pq"/>

• Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
  • Peter's Quotations, p. 324<ref name="pq"/>

• When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
  • Peter's Quotations, p. 418<ref name="pq"/>

Attributed

• Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

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

• The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.

• The noblest dog is the hot dog. It feeds the hand that bites it.

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