Laurence J. Peter

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

"In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Do not be fooled by apparent exceptions."

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

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

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

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

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

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