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QUOTES BY Laurence J Peter
Selection of Quotes by Laurence J Peter . Enjoy these inspirational and motivational quotes.
1.
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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3.
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
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4.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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5.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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6.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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7.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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8.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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9.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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10.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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11.
Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
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12.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
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13.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
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14.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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15.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
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16.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.
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17.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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18.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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19.
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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20.
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
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21.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
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22.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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23.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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24.
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
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25.
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
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26.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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27.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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28.
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
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29.
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
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30.
There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
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31.
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.
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POPULAR QUOTES
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Author: Lee Iacocca

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Author: Lee Iacocca

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Author: Lee Iacocca

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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5.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

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6.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton

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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
Author: John Stuart Mill

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8.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr

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9.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Author: Rupert Murdoch

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10.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Author: Pablo Picasso

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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Author: Lee Iacocca

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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Author: Lee Iacocca

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4.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Author: Lee Iacocca

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5.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished.
Author: Lee Iacocca

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6.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
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8.
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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10.
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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