Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter

21 quotes

Laurence J. Peter, a Canadian educator, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Their thinking spans from Funny to Work, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Discover 25 of Laurence J. Peter's most memorable quotes, ranging across Funny, Work, Intelligence, Best, and Women. One standout: "Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."

“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Funny

All Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Women

“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Teen

“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Nature

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Art

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Best

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Funny

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Work

“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Failure

“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.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Friendship

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Education

“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Anger

“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Business

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Beauty

“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Funny

“Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Car

“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Intelligence

“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Funny

“It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Valentinesday

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Work

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Alone