Creative Quotations from Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Laurence J. Peter
(1919-1990) born on Sep 16

Canadian-US "educator, author". "He described the "The Peter Principle," i.e., promotion within a hierarchy to attain your level of incompetence."

Education helps one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

"If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again."

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "Peter's Quotations," by Laurence J. Peter, 1977."
R:	"In "Quote Disk 1,2,3," by DBUG, 1991."
A:	"In "The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases," by Donald Bolander, 1987."
N:	"In "Friendly Advice," ed. Jon Winokur, 1990."
K:	"In "Quote Disk 1,2,3," by DBUG, 1991."