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Peter – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Laurence J. Peter" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_Peter" title="Laurence Peter – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Laurence Peter" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter" title="Laurence J. Peter – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Laurence J. Peter" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter" title="Laurence J. Peter – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Laurence J. Peter" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter" title="Laurence J. Peter – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Laurence J. Peter" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter" title="Laurence J. Peter – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Laurence J. Peter" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter" title="Laurence J. Peter – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Laurence J. Peter" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A1_%D7%92%27_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A8" title="לורנס ג' פיטר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="לורנס ג' פיטר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_Peter" title="Laurence Peter – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Laurence Peter" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter" title="Laurence J. Peter – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Laurence J. Peter" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80" title="Лоуренс Питер – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Лоуренс Питер" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter" title="Laurence J. Peter – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Laurence J. 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Peter">Laurence Johnston Peter</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/16_September" class="mw-redirect" title="16 September">16 September</a> <a href="/wiki/1919" class="mw-disambig" title="1919">1919</a> – [12 [January]] <a href="/wiki/1990" class="mw-disambig" title="1990">1990</a>) was a Canadian <a href="/wiki/Educator" class="mw-redirect" title="Educator">educator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Management" title="Management">management</a> theorist, most famous for having formulated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Principle">Peter Principle</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurence_J._Peter&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Home_in_Relation_to_Everything.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Home_in_Relation_to_Everything.png/220px-Home_in_Relation_to_Everything.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Home_in_Relation_to_Everything.png/330px-Home_in_Relation_to_Everything.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Home_in_Relation_to_Everything.png/440px-Home_in_Relation_to_Everything.png 2x" data-file-width="8859" data-file-height="11506" /></a><figcaption>Some <a href="/wiki/Problems" class="mw-redirect" title="Problems">problems</a> are so <a href="/wiki/Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex">complex</a> that you have to be highly <a href="/wiki/Intelligent" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligent">intelligent</a> and well <a href="/wiki/Informed" class="mw-redirect" title="Informed">informed</a> just to be undecided about them.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level. <ul><li>Laurence J. Peter (1969) in "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.nl/books?id=K08EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59">Up against the Peter principle</a>". LIFE - Vol. 67, nr. 3. July 18, 1969. p. 59</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Peter_Principle_(1969)"><span id="The_Peter_Principle_.281969.29"></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peter_Principle" class="extiw" title="w:The Peter Principle">The Peter Principle</a> </i> (1969)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurence_J._Peter&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Peter Principle (1969)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><i>The Peter Principle</i> (1969) co-written with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Hull" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Raymond Hull">Raymond Hull</a></small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it. <ul><li>p. 20 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011) "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jgbm.org/page/1%20James%20Ike%20Schaap%20.pdf">The Peter Principle: Is This Forty-Year-Old Universal Phenomenon in Decline or Growing?</a>"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.</b> <ul><li>p. 25: Statement of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Principle">Peter Principle</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Do not be fooled by apparent exceptions. <ul><li>p. 36 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth. But the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success. <ul><li>p. 38: This phenomenon is called by Peter "percussive sublimation", or "being kicked upstairs".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull. <ul><li>p. 63</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence <ul><li>p. 107 (The Mathematics of Incompetence)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peter's_Quotations:_Ideas_for_Our_Time_(1977)"><span id="Peter.27s_Quotations:_Ideas_for_Our_Time_.281977.29"></span><i>Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time</i> (1977)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurence_J._Peter&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7725710M/Peter's_Quotations"><i>Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time</i> (1977)</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-688-03217-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-688-03217-6">ISBN 0-688-03217-6</a></small></dd></dl> <ul><li>The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively. <ul><li>p. 10: Introduction</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=W6bPGIL-_-8C&pg=PA44&dq=%22On+second+thought,+maybe+the+atheist%22">p. 44</a>: Sometimes misattributed to <a href="/wiki/Francis_Thompson" title="Francis Thompson">Francis Thompson</a>, whose quote "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident" Peter was commenting on.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. <ul><li>p. 83</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. <ul><li>p. 125</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time. <ul><li>p. 181</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object. <ul><li>p. 324</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7725710M/Peter's_Quotations">p. 333</a> <ul><li>Frequently mistaken as quote by Albert Einstein.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. <ul><li>p. 362</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation. <ul><li>p. 418</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peter's_Almanac_(1982)"><span id="Peter.27s_Almanac_.281982.29"></span><i>Peter's Almanac</i> (1982)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurence_J._Peter&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Peter's Almanac (1982)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small> <i>Peter's Almanac</i> (1977) <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780688016128" title="Special:BookSources/9780688016128">ISBN 9780688016128</a></small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.</b> <ul><li>Entry for September 24; as quoted in <i>Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations</i> (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0880297689" title="Special:BookSources/0880297689">ISBN 0880297689</a>, p. 78</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quotes_about_Laurence_J._Peter">Quotes about Laurence J. Peter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurence_J._Peter&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Quotes about Laurence J. 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