Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Incompetence plus incempetence equals incompetence.

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

The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.