Laurence J. Peter
  • Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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

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

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

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