Laurence J. Peter Quotes

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

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

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings.