“Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.”
Alone
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.”
WorkAll Quotes by Laurence J. Peter
“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”
Teen“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
Education“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
Art“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”
Funny“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”
Funny“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
Anger“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”
Best“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.”
Funny“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Beauty“Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.”
Women“Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.”
Car“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
Intelligence“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.”
Work“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.”
Friendship“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
Work“It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
Valentinesday“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”
Failure“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
Patience“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”
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