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Laurence J. Peter bol americký vychovávateľ.

✵ 16. september 1919 – 12. január 1990   •   Ďalšie mená Laurence Peter, L. J. Peter, Laurence Johnston Peter
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„Keď nevieš, kam kráčaš, možno prídeš niekam inde.“

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“On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.”

p. 44 http://books.google.com/books?id=W6bPGIL-_-8C&pg=PA44&dq=%22On+second+thought,+maybe+the+atheist%22: Sometimes misattributed to Francis Thompson, whose quote "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident" Peter was commenting on.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)

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

Zdroj: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 362

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

Zdroj: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83

“Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence”

Zdroj: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 107 (The Mathematics of Incompetence)

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”

p. 333 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7725710M/Peter's_Quotations
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)

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

Zdroj: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 25: Statement of the Peter Principle

“Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.”

Zdroj: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 20 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011) " The Peter Principle: Is This Forty-Year-Old Universal Phenomenon in Decline or Growing? http://www.jgbm.org/page/1%20James%20Ike%20Schaap%20.pdf"

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

Entry for September 24; as quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, ISBN 0880297689, p. 78
Peter's Almanac (1982)

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

Zdroj: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 10: Introduction

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

Zdroj: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 125

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

Zdroj: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 324

“In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.”

Laurence J. Peter (1969) in " Up against the Peter principle http://books.google.nl/books?id=K08EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59". LIFE - Vol. 67, nr. 3. July 18, 1969. p. 59

“The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.”

Zdroj: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 181

“Dr. Peter effectively destroys examples of seeming exceptions and is rather convincing that his principle is ubiquitous.”

Lawrence Lipsitz, Editor (1973) The Process of Innovation in Education. p. 26
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