Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.The Peter Principle, p. 67, 1969
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Laurence J. Peter was a Canadian educator and author, best known for co-authoring the humorous self-help book "The Peter Principle" in 1969. The book introduced the concept that in a hierarchy, individuals tend to rise to their "level of incompetence," offering insights into organizational behavior and management.
1919–1990·lived 70 years
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.The Peter Principle, p. 67, 1969
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.The Peter Principle, p. 45, 1969
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.The Peter Principle, p. 25, 1969
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.The Peter Principle, p. 25, 1969
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.The Peter Principle, p. 45, 1969
That’s all 7 quotes by Laurence J. Peter.